"We should constantly remind ourselves that people brought up in a world where truth has been displaced from the heart of decision-making, where the secret police have all the power, and the ordinary person has only that “power of the powerless” forbes.com/sites/rogerscr…
Has the media interviewed Ukrainan Americans who identify as Republican?
Ask them how they feel about the Republican party abandoning them, abandoning Ukraine for The Kremlin.
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“The price of this transformation is the unconditional freedom of the Negro; it is not too much to say that he, who has been so long rejected, must now be embraced, and at no matter what psychic or social risk. He is the key figure in his country...”
—James Baldwin, The Fire
“...and the American future is precisely as bright or as dark as his. And the Negro recognizes this, in a negative way. Hence the question: Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”
“White Americans find it difficult..to divest themselves of the notion that they are in possession of some intrinsic value that black people need, or want..which, for example, makes the solution to the Negro problem depend on the speed with which Negroes accept white standards.”
When they want the pathology (NATURE of the social disease) to be BLACK (unique to BLACK people) they are race conscious, collectivist. But, when evidence suggest
... but, when evidence suggest "the earliest most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction.... The largest intercontinental migration in history before the mid-1800s" they are individualistic and color-blind"
"Contemporary artists like Beyonce have also depicted and paid homage to the Igbo Landing in their work. In the recent wildly acclaimed Marvel comic film ...
Black Panther, Killmonger, played by actor Michael B Jordan, refers to this event, saying, “Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ’cause they knew death was better than bondage”.
"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in Arkansas and FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chast'ning rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered.
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who hast by Thy might,
Led us into the light,
If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution; African or Black conservatism, emerges out of, and in response to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
"Give us, us free!"
The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery
Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.