🪔 if this makes you think, the full breakdown is on my substack.
i go deeper on the history, the book, and what it actually means for how we organize.
link in bio | tokyofusiondoll on substack been thinking about how we keep building pyramids and then wonder why they keep falling.
one leader at the top, everyone else hoping they don’t get taken out. we watched the FBI dismantle the Black Panther Party not by defeating their ideas — but by targeting their leadership. Fred Hampton was assassinated December 4, 1969 in a coordinated effort between the FBI and Chicago Police Department. that wasn’t random. that was structural. that was a blueprint for how you neutralize a movement when power is concentrated at the top.
as somebody who works in contracted municipal work and community organizing, i’ll tell you what they don’t teach you in civics class — centralized power is a liability, not a strength. the moment your movement can be decapitated, it will be. and it has been. repeatedly.
so why are we still doing it?
we keep anointing messiahs. we keep waiting for that one person to lead us to the promised land. and the moment they get too loud, too effective, too threatening to the status quo — they get removed, discredited, bought out, or worse. and we start over. same cycle. different decade.
✦ this is part one. the full essay — including the Target boycott breakdown, Black buying power myth, and the church question nobody wants to have — is on my substack.
🔗 read the full piece: https://substack.com/@tokyofusiondoll
🎥 i also talk about things like this on youtube.
come see how i actually move through the world.
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