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The cultural sources of black radicalism

It is good to remember that it was through struggle, an uprising-like action, including the use of violence, that gays won theirs rights, not because "our Liberal" regime granted them those rights as many today think.  It was through people's own struggle, not like today's missionaries touring Asia and Africa, lecturing gay people about "their identity" as gays. It was withinin a context of the war in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, and the influence of other militant groups such as the Black Panthers'. It was within socio-economic conditions of a fully developed capitalist relations, not a Uganda-like one or a dictatorship . Historian John D'Emilio provides good insights on the subject. *** The BBC calls it "a fury years in the making", i.e. a movement. But it chose a title that reduces it to a "riot"!! Broidy thinks something has been lost in the process. "I think it's much more powerful without the fl

Here is an antidote to those missionaries like Soros, Jolie and Gates  "If anticapitalist revolution is where identity politics began, it has since become something quite different, and is now invoked by certain liberals and leftists to serve distinctly non-revolutionary ends, Haider argues. It involves members of marginalised groups demanding inclusion, recognition, or restitution from above – a seat at the table. These demands are made in response to very real injuries endured by those groups. But their method, he says, ends up strengthening the structures that produced those injuries in the first place." Asad Haider And in the comments on the review I like this one by Nada89:  " ID [identity politics] helped people turn a blind eye to the fact Clinton is a corrupt political figure. Same with Obama - people cut him slack for being 'the first black American president' yet he was complicit with the usual pattern of international crimes inherent in US f

The Panthers and the Patriots