Ta-Nahesi Coates’s father is a former Black Panther who runs a Black Nationalist publishing house that issued a new edition of a book called “the Jewish Onslaught” right around the time that his son published the Message.
Zohrab Mamdani’s father is a post colonial scholar at Columbia so committed to Fanonist politics that he wrote sympathetically about Uganda’s ethnic cleansing of Indians in spite of the fact that himself was ethnically cleansed. (He did note that the expulsion was an economic catastrophe for Uganda.)
Both men raised sons to seek and gain power in mainstream US institutions in order to break the old hegemonies and institute new ones.
They have both done well in their ambitions.
Zohrab Mamdani’s father is a post colonial scholar at Columbia so committed to Fanonist politics that he wrote sympathetically about Uganda’s ethnic cleansing of Indians in spite of the fact that himself was ethnically cleansed. (He did note that the expulsion was an economic catastrophe for Uganda.)
Both men raised sons to seek and gain power in mainstream US institutions in order to break the old hegemonies and institute new ones.
They have both done well in their ambitions.
Mamdani’s effortless co-optation of the abundance crowd, shows an evolution in strategy and tactics that may or may not in the long one prove to be as thorough going as the revision of communist, practice successfully undertaken by the CCP
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The Jewish Onslaught books.google.com/books/about/Th…
Mahmood Mandani on ethnic cleansing in Uganda lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/…
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