this all goes back to the desire from some black blue checks to “wear their blackness proudly” and shyt while pretending white people dont have eyes and ears to hear youYes, the driver is anti-Black racism. That is always the primary driver of many of their attacks on us. Now, the real question is what do we do about it?
I am of the opinion we continue to help each other in ways that make it harder for them to hinder us. There is right now, and then there is later. Later on, we may win that fight and eventually not have to worry about the constant attacks against us, but also our people need the help right now. We need to have tactics to bypass all of the BS, while also having a strategy to defeat their machinations over all.
People kept taking it as a personal insult telling people to tone it down or to not do respectability politics or something…well here’s the result, they just step on open black advocacy, so you need to be a lot more indirect about it.
Tough lesson to learn, but these hard headed folks didn’t want to listen because they felt insulted if you told them to “dim their lights” a little bit to help all of us.
It backfired.