In my experience, black folks are pretty open to the idea of communism if they're not heavily into another ideology already (at least compared to their mayo counterparts) so yeah that's true. I think there is latent sympathy for left wing causes but black nationalists are organized. When the first BLM protest this year happened I went down to where the March started and there was a sea of Black Israelites standing around handing pamphlets to every black man that walked by. I went with a black man and they waited till I turned away to light a cig to walk up to him. NOI was out there too. I think the only organized black political orgs bigger than them is Democrat-affiliated nonprofits. It's kind of tough because the radical left is mostly white in a majority black city and when an all black group tells you that they're just colonizers trying to use you it can seen compelling. I can't really make a compelling argument against it because I'm white and it can easily look like a white boy telling them what's good for them.
Hm, fair. I’m just saying I meet a lot of black people who were into Panthers aesthetics when I was there and would be impressed when my honkey ass knew who Fred Hampton was. But yeah the NOI guys are always around at BLM stuff sadly.
I get what you mean. I don't think that reactionary black nationalism is by any means the standard. I just really hope Communist ideas can spread not only in the black community but in all working class communities, and I think the left being heavily white is definitely detrimental to that.
In my experience, black folks are pretty open to the idea of communism if they're not heavily into another ideology already (at least compared to their mayo counterparts) so yeah that's true. I think there is latent sympathy for left wing causes but black nationalists are organized. When the first BLM protest this year happened I went down to where the March started and there was a sea of Black Israelites standing around handing pamphlets to every black man that walked by. I went with a black man and they waited till I turned away to light a cig to walk up to him. NOI was out there too. I think the only organized black political orgs bigger than them is Democrat-affiliated nonprofits. It's kind of tough because the radical left is mostly white in a majority black city and when an all black group tells you that they're just colonizers trying to use you it can seen compelling. I can't really make a compelling argument against it because I'm white and it can easily look like a white boy telling them what's good for them.
Hm, fair. I’m just saying I meet a lot of black people who were into Panthers aesthetics when I was there and would be impressed when my honkey ass knew who Fred Hampton was. But yeah the NOI guys are always around at BLM stuff sadly.
I get what you mean. I don't think that reactionary black nationalism is by any means the standard. I just really hope Communist ideas can spread not only in the black community but in all working class communities, and I think the left being heavily white is definitely detrimental to that.