This was very interesting, and a few points caught my attention. The first was how the timing of discussions about MAGA and “Black fatigue” posted here…
…really fits into the cycle of appropriation described in the video. When they get tired of it (or it becomes dangerous/less profitable), then it’s 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 Godfrey’s videos in the text. Some links don’t work well in my browser.
at some point in the future. It’s their usual DARVO reaction to racism, and it’s fuel for their base.
If there are others… Why are they still 
standing 
