For the first time ever, Juneteenth and the John Brown Jamboree coincided this year.
Some interesting analysis from FD, as usual. But this also introduced me to a term and movement within Black politics that I was not familiar with, the term, at least. FBA / ADOS…
What does FBA mean?
Foundational Black Americans, apparently…
There were Blacks in Colonial America who were never enslaved but still had a much more difficult and dangerous time (and lack of human and civil rights) so it’s good that they’re included rather than separated out.
In his efforts to demolish and disappear Black culture and the institutions that support it, Trump has made a loud admission: if he truly believed that Black culture were inferior, he would be leaving it on display and intact. Its mere existence would prove white supremacy. Trump knows the real threat of Black culture that has been shortchanged in the public DEI discourse, as his administration is a metaphor in itself for mythology of white supremacy: extensively kleptocratic, grossly inept and held in power by depraved and ruthless violence. As Haki Madhubuti, a BAM founding father, explains of the movement’s endgame: “The mission is how do we become a whole people, and how do we begin to essentially tell our narrative, while at the same time move toward a level of success in this country and in the world? And we can do that. I know we can do that.” Trump’s great fear is knowing we can, too.
