Interesting take.
Was going to ask, how many here were around for the Ebonics controversy out of the Bay area in the 1990s?
A little before my time, but I have seen some footage and read about it. I remember Hooked on Phonics being big growing up.
The take is based on a book I posted in this sub-forum,
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Framed African American Literature. Before finding out about that, of course you know about COINTELPRO, I saw the Darthard Perry interview on Gil Noble and he mentioned something called "black desk" where federal intelligence agencies made themselves aware of black culture with the purpose of controlling it for the purposes some of us are presently aware of. I'm still not sure what "black desk" is exactly. I can't seem to find a document on it, perhaps it was a word of mouth phrase referencing the above. The aforementioned book gives me a clue.
Black Orpheus magazine was funded by the CIA. Then, there are these:
The US and USSR fought something called the
cultural cold war were arts and letters played a prominent role in determining which superpower would come out on top. Whose culture was used to deflect from the inherent racism at home?
During the
Cold War, the leftist French publication
Combat used the phrase to criticize the operations of the
House Un-American Activities Committee, pointing out what it saw as corruption of "a nation that lynched blacks and hounded anyone accused of 'un-American' activities."
[36][37] Use of the phrase as a
tu quoque fallacy grew in popularity in Russia during the 1960s, and was used as a widespread quip between Russians.
[9] In this version, an American and a Soviet car salesman argue which country makes better cars. Finally, the American asks: "How many decades does it take an average Soviet man to earn enough money to buy a Soviet car?" After a thoughtful pause, the Soviet replies: "And you are lynching Negroes!"
[9][10][38] The phrase garnered numerous iterations during the Cold War period.
[10] Its pervasiveness in Russian society reflected a strong sense of
Soviet socialist patriotism.
[39] When the government faced criticism for discrimination against
Jews in the Soviet Union, the idiom was used with excessively sentimental tone to complain about
racism in the United States.
[1]
And you are lynching negroes
The cultural cold war runs deep and is the reason Jackson Pollock is prominent in modern art circles:
So influential that The Stone Roses, a lauded British indie rock band, used his style as the basis of one of their covers designs:
This is considered one of the greatest British rock albums of all time. Culture.
I think the overwhelming majority of black people don't realize how thorough white people are in making sure we can't ever come out from under them. It's such a layered issue and deep history that for all the benefits they seem to give us, we are still facing the same old issue.
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism points out that liberals used the tail-end of the CRM and the whole of the Black Power movement as the blueprint for dealing with other minority groups. The amount of money and knowledge of people behind the scenes is crucial to understanding the entirety of the issue (search up a term,
technocrats). So when you see liberal policies that initially benefit black people go on to benefit others, that's a part of where it comes from. I can go further back, but you want to look at how abolitionists handled the anti-slavery question and other issues at the time and how they were intertwined as the impetus of all this.
It's a very interesting take when you consider a dictionary is being created so other people can learn to speak like us and know what we're saying. Ebonics is based on English, what few ADOS/FBA speak Spanish are still hindered to some degree by the slang of the language, a language barrier still exists. This isn't a cause to celebrate but a way to break a language barrier.
Sad thing is, enough of us who don't know or refuse to acknowledge and adhere to this little... history lesson will think this as a win and popularize it on social media.
I keep telling y'all to stop making this kind of information public knowledge for a reason, when the desire for acceptance is so strong you'll devalue yourself in the worst ways possible thinking you're being fair and kind you don't recognize the cloak and dagger.
That's all for today. If you have any other questions, comments or concerns PM me.
