#17 – God’s Socialist, pt. 7: A Gallant, Glorious, Screaming End
The Martyr Made Podcast
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The Black Experience - Irving Howe's Response to Howe
The black protest movement had always, to a degree, dependent on white support. When you've got white people conditioning someone's black identity on their political positions, it means that it's not really about the person you're talking to,. It's more about yourself. And overtime, this dynamic became very toxic and self destructive. In the sixties and seventies, jerry reuben wanting to spew sperm on the jesus pictures would have been just as alienating and offensive to martin luther king and black church ladies - who was really his target. They didn't want stoic black preachers. They wanted the crazy negro who scared the shit out of their conservative parents and drove
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