#black leftism

[goodguydotmp3]

Martin Luther King was not a Conservative

I found this video to be pretty interesting, especially with election year making blue no matter who folx especially wild.

I will say I think his audience or at least expected audience is white folx and black social conservatives so the language is reflective of that

[kianavonna]

Making tumblr friends

Im only gonna try one more 'gain and give it everything ive got. I want to make more tumblr friends

IF YOU ARE A BLACK PERSON, 21 years old and up

Into fashion, gaming, luxury (but not like in a gross capitalist way, just thinking luxury is pretty and a deserved experience for all regardless of economic standing lol), or activism

ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE FROM THE HOOD (Because I am and want more friends from the same experience lol)

Let's be mutuals

[slickster46]

Steven Universe isn't like a horrific show or anything and RS isn't some f*sh but at some point we're gonna have to talk about Bismuth (being very black coded and rocking locs a pretty well known hair style that was donned by far left black revolutionaries the other hair style being the afro) teaching Steven about the very real leftist black revolutionary principal of "by any means necessary" (something that is a direct result of the extreme state sanctioned violence that occurred during the civil rights era including high profile assassinations) with a weapon called "the breaking point" and how the show ends up boiling that down to "but killing people is wrong :|" and how that is the most white liberal way that topic could've been handled

[thegynocrat-blog]

An example of:

... parts of “the Left” that you’d expect me to have some stake in (like BLM or the Black Left as a black person) have become pits of anti-feminist slandering/smear campaigns and prioritizing politics (like being pro-genderism and pro-sex trades) that harm and/or further oppress biological women and girls.

I’m so done with this.

[smokey-eyes-and-bright-ties]

Dreams of Black Revolt

Anonymous Dreams of Black Revolt A reflection on the 2 year anniversary of the George Floyd Rebellion and its meaning from a Black Anarchist

This was hard for me to read because it does call some of my own politics to the carpet but it’s a good and worthy read for Black leftist (actual leftism, meaning not liberalism).

[kianavonna]

The difference between white leftism and Black leftism is easily seen when the discussion of teaching comes up

For Black leftists teaching usually means giving inner city people the tools and resources for survival, giving them spaces and peers url and irl to learn in and helping them unlearn the harmful shit society has told them about others and themselves

For white leftists teaching means someone (as long as its not them) calmly explaining to their card carrying kkk uncle why he shouldnt hate black people and jews because otherwise if not done nicely he might hate them a little bit more than he already does. Probably.

[fruithonorific]

When Black Lives Matter protesters Patrisse Cullers and Tia Oso interrupted presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the Netroots Nation gathering on July 18, the media had a frame ready: class against race, socialism against black power, all lives against black lives. At this site, Ned Resnikoff wrote, “two major poles of the modern progressive movement — the racial justice movement and the economic reform wing — crashed into each other.” There’s a long history of pitting these two “poles” against each other, but it’s based on a few misconceptions. It’s true there’s a conflict; it’s just not between the left and blacks. In her book ‘The Other Blacklist,’ Mary Helen Washington... takes the reader back to a time when ‘the [Communist] Party was such an accepted organization that when a black family feared an eviction, it was not unusual for them to tell their children “find the Reds.” ‘The Left offered black writers the institutional support they could get nowhere else in white America,’ Washington writes. ‘When mainstream literary publications completely ignored black culture and black life, the Marxist, leftist, and communist journals covered, theorized, and critiqued African American cultural production.’ But the ‘two poles’ story is the dominant history. It didn’t happen this way by accident. Mary Helen Washington unearths concerted efforts by the American government to sever the black-red connection by any means necessary. On the cultural front, the Central Intelligence Agency funded anti-communist black and white organizations through the ‘Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).’ White publications such as The Partisan Review and The Paris Review accepted money from the CCF and popularized a non-revolutionary moderate-left aesthetic. Meanwhile, law enforcement harassed and harangued Communists, especially black Communists, making it virtually impossible for them to continue any work in peace. As the Party was marginalized, black and white radicals developed new organizations.  Except as outsider bogeymen, American Communists have been more or less deleted from United States history. This redaction has erased a long tradition not just of left-black alliance, but black leftism itself.

The long, repressed history of black leftism, by Malcolm Harris 

[aljazeeraamerica-blog]

'The Other Blacklist' poses a provocative question: Is America mentally equipped to recognize a black-led left? Is the “two poles” idea so embedded in our political imagination that we can’t recognize the universal call in “black lives matter”? I don’t imagine we’ll see a resurrected American Communist Party, but anyone who would call themselves a leftist is obligated to learn from its buried history. The conflict between Sanders and Black Lives Matter — and the longer conflict between democratic socialism and black power — is thus not one between the left and black Americans. It’s between one theory of universal liberation and another, between a race-blind reformism and a shard from a shattered revolutionary tradition. Here’s what I saw happen in the videos from Netroots Nation: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was shouted down by the left.

by Malcolm Harris

Opinion: The long, repressed history of black leftism