The Official Thread on Black Revolutionary and Critical Thought

[Booker T Garvey]

An interesting follow up conversation 20 years later.

A 1993 roundtable discussion on the current condition of the Black Community and the fight for Liberation. Featuring Derrick Bell, Elaine Brown, Stanley Crouch, Ralph Ellison, John Edgar Wideman, Patricia Williams and Kwame Ture.



Stanley Crouch was c00ning extra hard from the jump. Talking about how "Black Power" was bad for the Black Movement because it scared away white allies. Called Toure' a "race-baiter". Using c00nservative talking points we still hear today.

Some other great points.

"The of fate African-Americans is tied to America"

Derek Bell said some profound stuff starting from 12:36. How "equality" has left us in a worse position than we were pre-desegregation.

Talks about how whites use Bell's personal success to deny systematic racism.

That what Elaine Brown said at 5:30 would definitely not fly right now...we've interwoven black celebrity so much in our political movements that downplaying them would turn everybody off

 

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Around the 24 min. mark Angela Davis brought up how the white liberal Democrats were not looking out for our people almost 50 years ago! I wonder where that message got misconstrued within that time frame?

It hasn't, honestly. Black leaders and activists on the Left have held this message down for decades, from George Jackson to Kuwasi Balagoon, to Angela Davis to Keeanga Yahmatta Taylor.

The moderate liberal bourgeoisie has been running with failed electoral policy and small-scale reforms for over 100 years now.

 

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Adding in a list of relevant books:

Fear of Black Consciousness + Existence in Black by. Lewis B. Gordon;
Blood in My Eye by. George Jackson;
Golden Gulag by. Ruth Wilson Gilmore;
Race for Profit by. Keeanga Yahmatta Taylor;
Are Prisons Obsolete? + Abolition Democracy + Women, Race and Class by. Angela Davis
The New Jim Crow by. Michelle Alexander;
The Condemnation of Blackness by. Khalid G. Muhammad;
Solitary by. Albert Woodfox;
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by. Kwame Ture;
Black Reconstruction in America + The World and Africa+ Africa in Battle Against Colonialism, Racialism, Imperialism by. W.E.B. Du Bois;
The Black Jacobins + World Revolution by. C.L.R. James;
The Man-Not by. Tommy J. Curry;
Caste, Class & Race by. Oliver C. Cox;
The Wretched of the Earth + Black Skin, White Masks by. Frantz Fanon;
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa + Decolonial Marxism by. Walter Rodney;
The Invention of Women by. Oyeribje Oyewumi;
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust + Africans at the Crossroads by. John Henrik Clarke;
Carceral Capitalism by. Jackie Wang
Black Marxism + Terms of Order by. Cedric Robinson;
Hammer & Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression + Freedom Dreams by. Robin DG Kelley

I'll add additional commentary when I have some free time