People have been trained to see Black billionaires as a sign of Black Power. But Black billionaires don’t have the same interests as the Black working class. Why would Black billionaires want to overthrow a system that they benefit from? I got called a kune once for pointing out the class contradiction in Tulsa and Durham’s Black Wall Streets. It wasn’t to knock what our people built. It was simply to show that these communities still had a Black ruling elite and a Black working class. In Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier (one of Malcolm’s favorite books), Frazier talks about how those same Black elites were against Marcus Garvey’s movement. This is why Kwame Ture said Black capitalism is not Black Power. Black capitalism has been used as a tool to confuse our people about what Black Power is. Now, we simply call it Black Excellence.
I have lots of issues with lots of Obama’s politics, and the ACA was not perfect, but finding a way to lower healthcare cost for that much of the population is an objectively good thing no matter how much GOP “bootstrap” rhetoric has melted your brain into thinking otherwise.
Gloria Steinem died wealthy, surrounded by family and friends, lionized in the New York Times. Assata died in exile. Thousands of working class Black and Brown women die from slave labor in sweatshops, medical experimentation or botched procedures, and Israeli and American violence. Nothing more to say.
Calling Tatum an average defender shows you’re either trolling or you don’t watch basketball. What did that great offense get Luka when he was literally getting targeted by Celtics players in the finals and getting exposed defensively
I think that a big problem with SOME CB audiences is that they want black characters in media to be basically white people in black skin
Because the moment said black characters talk about race or their culture they just throw tantrums
Calling him a top 5 Celtic might be even more egregious than the Tatum comments, a guy with 1 ring and 0 first team all nba can’t be top 5 for a franchise with 18 rings lmao