Before was the American dream, ‘Pull yourself by the bootstraps, and you can make yourself…you can make it in America,’ all these lies that America told us our whole life. And then when we start getting in, they tried to lock us out of it. They start inventing words like you know, ‘capitalist,’ you know, things like that. I mean, you know, we’ve been called ‘n–ger’ and ‘monkeys’ and shit. I don’t care; those words y’all come up with. Y’all gotta come up with stronger words.
We’re not gonna be tricked out of our position. Y’all locked us out. Y’all created a system that, you know, doesn’t include us. We said fine. We went our alternate route. We created this music. We did our thing, you know, we hustle, we fucking killed ourselves to get to this space. And, you know, now it’s like, you know, you know, ‘Eat the rich,’ and, man, we’re not stopping, so that evolution is, you know, from us.
It's pretty disappointing that a comment like that has so many positive reactions, tbh.
edit, I should clarify, not your comment, the one you are replying to.
You can see the exact moment where they start to value racial analysis over class analysis, and it’s the exact moment they become a billionaire defending lib
Lol I guess I shouldnt post on zero sleep. I wasn't intending to defend him, just analyzing the statement and his attempt at justification.
I'm not justifying it myself
Fair enough, but I think this line of thought from him makes him extra bougie not less so. It’s an additional layer of bourgeois ideology to justify his exploitative position and actively harms any radical movements for racial equality by co-opting it into bourgeois systems and delegitimizing it.
Fully agree. The extra hoops he had to jump through to come to that same conclusion is kind of interesting though is what i was trying to get at.
I'm also just paraphrasing sentiments I've seen from black comrades too who are just as pissed at him.