I’ve spent weeks with about a hundred of elder Black peole who still very much think of themselves as comrades. The way they talk about Trump & electoral politics & America really just drives home for me that Black southern pragmatism + radical imaginations + lowfi relationships are what matter.
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Southern republicans are wealthy people cosplaying ‘simple’ folks to gain the votes of upper-middle- and middle-class people cosplaying ‘simple’ folks.
Too many on the left believe that Southerners are ‘simple’ folk, too.