Maybe there is a paradox: adamant race-reductionism in terms of black economic ascension is somehow psychologically linked to one’s own internalized racism where one is critical of other black folk.
Some of that seemed to occur with Malcolm X when he bitterly disparaged various black folk as “chumps,” Uncle Toms, sell-outs, and “handkerchief heads” and mocked black folk protesting in the South.
That is what I’ve been trying to understand. Recently you’ve seemed adamantly race-reductive yet at the same time very critical of other black folk.
Less recently, I was confused by your own and others’ rap lyrics 20 or 30 years ago, because they seemed both intensely focused on blackness as an identity while at the same time harshly critical of black folk who were called “fake n—” or “sellouts” …etc, while the narratives in many of those rap rhymes involved brutalizing and murdering fellow community members.
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