I hate this fukkin dumbass simple minded "well we don't vote for them" argument from these wannabe intellects so much.
One of the most repeated smart-dumb nicca talking points.
If I said it once I've said it a million times: Just because we don't vote Republican does not mean Republicans do not exist!
We are still impacted, moreso than any other group, by their laws, their rhetoric, their judicial appointments, and their policy agendas.
We are STILL fighting in courts and getting fukked over by Trump RIGHT NOW. Not by "Democrats." If you completely ignore that shyt and the further threat of a Trump second term like its not happening but got a mouthful to say as a "pro-black" woman about "Democrats" you're not some militant thought leader, you're a stooge and a coward.
People like her are living in an echochamber where all their statements are validated constantly. There's no sense of actual political literacy guiding this, just whining dressed up as criticism. It's like how people think a debate is a word fight rather than two teachers attempting to explain the subject they're knowledgeable about to the other person. When ideas are compared and picked apart, then both parties walk away from the exchange feeling more educated.
The republic is still considered one of the greatest works of political philosophy because it's written from the perspective of men discussing what justice means. They each enter the conversation and Socrates asks each speaker to expand on what their definition of justice is. He then goes on to question each tenet that led them to the definition they carry around. It spawned an entire new form of education called Socratic questioning.
If your goal is to inform black people about the political realities in America, that means looking at each piece.
The green party is certified for ballot in 27 states and has a reparations and racial justice agenda.
The party for socialism and liberation is certified for ballot in 12 states and has a reparations and racial justice agenda.
The pessimists on the board NEVER mention Claudia De la Cruz or Jill stein or cornel west. All three have blatantly black agendas. Why aren't they promoting their platforms, why aren't they even saying their
names?
It's one thing to pick apart and compare the records and platforms of the democrats, but then to literally say nothing as if there's no alternative is just an exposal of one's own political ignorance and journalistic malpractice if you consider yourself an investigator. It's malpractice if you consider yourself a political scientist. It's just plain ignorance if you're an influencer and you're unknowingly contributing to black disenfranchisement by not at the very least propping up and speaking positively of the people that actually ARE speaking on the topics you want politicians to speak on and actually DO have a black agenda that is unambiguous in who they're targeting.
If you're an anarchist and you think elections are merely a smokescreen, then speak on how the 5 day workweek was the result of social movements which resulted in individual workplaces switching to the 5 day system and then spreading, emphasize how direct action as a group got shyt done instead of a politician. Emphasize how housing justice is achieved by systems of mutual aid in a community and how many people were saved from eviction because people got together, donated to a rent bank and the rent bank was used by the most vulnerable members in the community. Talk about how the black panthers had a meal program and sketch out plans for how a national network of power can be built so that black kids are fed all over America instead of having to wait for politicians to vote that in as a law. Talk about mutual aid that allows for people to donate money to pay for the bail or legal fees for black people that were arrested without cause, medical mutual aid networks so that the bills of a brutalized black person at the hands of police can be paid while they recover in hospital.
They never talk about shyt like that because they either don't know about it or don't care about it, or are the kind of hard headed dumb fks who will just double down and pretend you didn't say anything because you gave them criticism that they're intellectually ill equipped to understand let alone dismantle.
All I am telling you are the necessary forces needed to cultivate institutional changes.
I also have a skillset, I do acknowledge that it would affect a number of people close to me though.
