This was very interesting, and a few points caught my attention. The first was how the timing of discussions about MAGA and βBlack fatigueβ posted hereβ¦
β¦really fits into the cycle of appropriation described in the video. When they get tired of it (or it becomes dangerous/less profitable), then itβs something to be discarded. Stealing and attempting to redefine the meaning of fatigue is really galling, considering the actions of the current regime and responses to celebrations like this:
Reese Waters goes in depth about the outrage from plantation wedding and whitewashed history fans here:
The other part of the video that jumped out at me was the financial point. The constant appropriation and profiting from the pain of marginalized groups without compensation. It made this news even more disappointing:
This is in a state where systemic racism from copaganda and state officials enabling the criminal injustice system have been so recently revealed I doubt they could have already been fully addressed / accounted for in any reckoning:
This is why Godfrey and others have this reaction when the subject of reparations is raised and delayed:
ETA links for part one and part two of Godfreyβs videos in the text. Some links donβt work well in my browser.
Kalorama is where racist housing covenants used to keep the neighborhood clean of Black folks, except when we were scrubbing toilets and polishing silver. A place so historically exclusive that even the air thinks itβs better than you. Welpβ¦ now it smells like smoke.
A controlled burn to cleanses the land. These historic relics that were built off stolen labor and bad energy are being repossessed by the spirits.
I donβt know who lit the match, but I know who fanned the wind. Keep going, ancestors. Thereβs plenty more kindling where that came from.
I wouldnβt be shocked to see those who created and shared the memes invited to photo ops with Hegseth and at some point in the future. Itβs their usual DARVO reaction to racism, and itβs fuel for their base.
Some of you might be familiar with Olayemi Olurin from the youtubes (you can find all her channels at that link, if youβre not)β¦ sheβs got an article out in Teen Vogueβ¦
The following video is her righteously pissed off take at Black folks who actually hate women (especially Black women) and constantly cape for the Black men who are known predators and abusers:
Summed up.: The supremacist story is an unsustainable string of lies that have been made truly real at the level of state power and popular belief, while the story of universal liberty is a truth that has never been fully believed or actualized.