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The Strong Antecedents of Black Activism
I fear that black activism is creeping towards its own form of eletism, a way of building strata and hierarchy of supposedly woke over the supposedly asleep. Too many of our most lauded thinkers, most in the north and west, have rendered beautiful meditations and delivered blistering orations on the subject of black liberation. I should think the strongest antecedent is not black, e white people moving in mass to vermont specifically for the purpose of consolidating liberal power. But i modeld my advocacy around the black journalists who advocated for the great migration in the first place....