students, please listen to folks who've done this all before: a task force, a committee, a negotiating table, a compromise — it's all co-optation. you are demanding total divestment, not a task force and "series of conversations"
in 2016, we protested in Atlanta all summer, and one night occupied the governor's lawn until the Mayor and police chief came to us to meet our demands 2am. we successfully forced them to us, they agreed to have a 'meeting' the following week.
May 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
when we think of popular 'Black conservatives', names like ben carson and candy owens usually appear. in reality, folks like oprah, killer mike, jay-z, kamala harris, steve harvey, charlamagne, and their contemporaries accurately represent Black conservative capitalist ideology.
all your faves pushing their own variety flavors of "Black bill gates in the making" ideologies are culpable
