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it’s crazy to me just how much labor is glossed over and I think it’s partially why politics like this hasn’t spread the way it should. It’s better amongst working Black folks than it was 15-20 years ago but it could be better.
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They aren’t and I think it’s because of the regional bias in Black radical politics. A lot of the revolutionary politics in Midwest and South was centered around labor. Black radicals had blue-collar jobs in the Great Lakes Region.
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Really!!!! Does he have stories about his time in it? Does he still have any of the literature?
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my father was friends with some of the members that
were in DRUM.
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This video reminds me of so many of the adult men from my childhood. They were in their 30s and 40s by then but still had this vibe.
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I hate that it’s been lost. I wonder how that accent developed. It’s a rhythm in speaking we don’t have anymore.
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I found that out later. A lot of the adult males I grew up around in Detroit had a similar accent.
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It’s crazy to me how we lost that in a generation. I saw a tik-tok from a woman from NY that I found anti-black, but was related to this. She was talking how older NYC men sound like slaves to her when they talked. I didn’t care for it, but it does relate to how our accents have changed.
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That was me. It was inspired by this video. I remember growing up my friends fathers and my dads friends sound like this when they talked.
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“But I want to live stream the protest!”
Find a cheap ass smart phone on Facebook marketplace or Craigslist. Wipe it and use that.
“But how will my followers know-“
They won’t. Neither will the agents looking at your profile. That’s the fucking idea. You face monsters, monsters don’t play fair.
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Unfortunately I don’t see any Black mayor of a medium to large city doing this.
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😂 pops is outside.
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Even our neighborhoods in the city have the bones to be less car dependent, but city refuses to put the resources in them until the yuppies deem them worthy of resources.
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I get it, because life in this city without a car is HARD. We shouldn’t be this dependent on cars considering there was a time when we were less dependent on cars here.
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All of this technology isn’t inherently bad. The problem is that the financialization of the U.S. economy makes it bad. Technology and the tech industry is nothing but an instrument to extract wealth out of every factor of human existence to raise stock prices.
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This combined with Alexa and all the other consumer listening devices people have in their homes is doing a lot of work for the techno-fascists.
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My father is in his 70s and I know this time is coming. I wish cities gave a damn about the neighborhoods our elders stay in. They should have the freedom to move without a car.
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the sad part is that it starts early in childhood. Often its Black people projecting their self-hate onto other Black folks. It sucks to have to deal with this when you’re coming of age.
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that internalized anti-Blackness is….. man…. the Black women that have told me they were called ugly to their face by Black women and men.
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I didn’t know there was a paywall. I didn’t get one in Safari.
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I was just talking about the development model of Metro-Detroit over the last 70 years and how this relates to it. The suburbs were developed with the intent to make cities for white people outside the city while extracting from the core city.
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This article came out last week in one of the local newspapers. It shows how they did this in Michigan.
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
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You really see this in local Black politics which is reflected nationally. I find that a lot of Black people representing majority Black areas are in politics because they can’t get a job anywhere else, and the barrier of entry is low.
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I saw that it was a jobs program for a lot people. At the DNC forum I saw how they ignored Democrats in rural America. I can go on.
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The betrayal part. When I joined the party and what I saw just as a rank-and-file member was disappointing as fuck. I realized they weren’t serious.
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It’s one of those things that intentionally confuses people here. Anywhere else Democrats are right-wing, but this country is so fascist that they are called and seen as left here.
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It is crazy. He also said he admired Reagan, and he’s still considered “left”.
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Problem is they think they are the left. Obama said himself that “we are on the same team”.
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This and the “whole word hates Black America so we just need to stick to ourselves” and “we got our own problems and can’t worry about anyone else”. A lot of us in the U.S. think we have more numbers than we actually do.
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I accepted defeat a long time ago, and now have pictures with friends at white parties.
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I agree. Honestly, I think it’s one of the performances people demand of someone to show they’re interested in them.
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I can tell you from personal experience they aren’t lying.
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Thanks to the narrative even people in the metro area have this idea of what neighborhoods looks like that isn’t and has never been reality.
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There’s a post on IG of a neighborhood that looks like the NW side or could be parts of the NE side and the header is “this is the part of Detroit they never show”. Some people are saying it’s not Detroit, it’s Livonia or Eastpointe.
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This is the crux of the problem for the last 500 years. If we include The Crusades it’s 1000 years sans the Dark Ages.