During the summer of 20 20, people were quick to note that so many white people were participating in the protests. How did the dominant idiology of today's racial liberalism circumscribe white people's understanding of their own participation as one limited to allyship h than a more expansive solidarity? I think you really put your finger on something, because when we think about what was going on in may and june 20, twentieth o obviously people were cooked up in their homes manyt. And rather than using this to call attention to the mass inequalities that people across the bord, i mean, particularly black people, but not exclusively,. there really wasn't much engagement about the real structural conditions that
Political scientist Jared Clemons on feckless liberal anti-racism: how In This House We Believe racial liberalism leaves racial capitalism's inequalities in place and why, drawing on Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, the Black Freedom Movement instead needs solidarity with the multi-racial working class.
Read Jared's article: jaredkclemons.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117532940/clemons_2022_-_from_freedom_now_to_blm.pdf
Interview with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from February 2021: thedigradio.com/podcast/conservative-intelligentsia-with-sam-adler-bell-matt-sitman/
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