Ever since my #MaishaKazini conversation with @jkobuthi,
I've been seeing more and more that any backlash you see against people of color anywhere in the world is never about us. It's an internal conversation between the white 1% and white working class.
newyorker.com/culture/q-and-…
I've been seeing more and more that any backlash you see against people of color anywhere in the world is never about us. It's an internal conversation between the white 1% and white working class.
newyorker.com/culture/q-and-…
Prof Kelley says that the issue against Black studies isn't that it teaches black history. It's that it teaches people the processes of exploitation that make the modern world. Plus the governor of Florida wants to run for president, so he's appealing to white voters.
The West has always made us Africans the scapegoat to evacuate its internal problems. When it can't afford to live well, it enslaves us for labor. When it doesn't have resources, it colonizes us. When it has no meaning, it uses philanthropy for its own spiritual redemption.
The West tried to convince us that our oppression says something about us Africans. But Black Studies now risks showing the truth about people of European descent and their economic system.
The system can't afford for the white working class to see that truth.
The system can't afford for the white working class to see that truth.
For 400 years, Africans have borne the brunt of Europe's blocking the ordinary people of European descent from realizing the truth about their own elite.
That's why they're fighting Black Studies.
As Prof Kelley puts it:
That's why they're fighting Black Studies.
As Prof Kelley puts it:
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