• happybadger [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    I mostly get my ideas from listening to Angela Davis

    • Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy
  • Othello
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    9 days ago

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    • kristina [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Lady is straight up known for her afro, and cannot be divorced from it, and no afro in the comic. Wild

      • Othello
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        9 days ago

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  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    All our heroes are flawed:

    https://revolutionaryfrontlines.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/black-agenda-report-angela-davis-lost-her-mind-over-obama/

    on Obama's victory:

    "She called that campaign a “victory, not of an individual, but of…people who refused to believe that it was impossible to elect a person, a Black person, who identified with the Black radical tradition.”

    There was a hush in the room, as if in mourning of the death of brain cells."

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      Let's be honest. A lot of well-meaning comrades fell for Obama early on. The dude's PR campaign was crazy strong.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      9 months ago

      Not perfect but she has been cool as hell on trans stuff

      • heartheartbreak [fae/faer]
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        9 months ago

        Yea she's been better on certain things than a lot of folks from back then. I feel like she's so cool that her downsides feel a bit bigger in proportion

        • kristina [she/her]
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          9 months ago

          Also I feel like no one mentioned this to me but apparently she's a lesbian which is also neat. Apparently she came out in 2020 / or became more known she was a lesbian in 2020?

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      All our heroes are flawed:

      I could've told you that when her circle tried to take over CPUSA during the 1991 congress then stormed out to form a suckdem political action committee

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      9 months ago

      didn't he literally attend a radical Black church? which he had to tone down and disown to even have a shot at becoming pres?

      Obama is objectively the most radical president in US history. The lesson to take from this is that voting can never solve anything

      • Raebxeh
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        9 months ago

        There was a bit in his book where he talks about meeting owning class people and the effects that regularly sharing space with them had on him. Something to the effect of, “I learned to censor myself on topics where I knew they’d never agree.” That alone is a great picture of deradicalization happens.