Gen Xer here: I agree! I must've woke up on the Black Left side of Gen X and I'm getting more radical, not conservative or MAGA, as I age. You got the matches, I'll pass the kerosene.
Publicly they're licking his boots like it's going out of style, because he's probably watching, privately most of them are probably throwing up in the bathroom and wishing he'd hurry up and have a cheeseburger heart attack
Yeah they're definitely not doing the cause any favors! Black folks have rich, deep history in anarchist, socialist and communist political theory and practice, on both sides of the pond. But like another post noted, we're in an age of anti-intellectualism, so
The standard Dems know that Black people have no other political home because the duopoly makes sure no viable third party can rise. I hate them for exploiting us in this way. And they've always been afraid we'll find socialism more appealing than capitalism.
Sadly true! So stuck on 'legacy' of the Civil Rights movement and Obama's presidency as a new plateau rather than a downturn for a lot of working class Black people who bought into increase wealth through investing in a house, and got screwed while Wall Street got bailouts.
Alternatively, Black folks could organize an independent party that centers Black working class interests broadly speaking, develop our own 'Black agenda', and DSA can take it or leave it
If feels like the despair people feel after the last decade or so of mass trauma, mass death, mass violence, and climate collapse, is excessive and spilling over into public places, like it can't be contained to the usual private places of death.
