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- If DSA can roll with the Democratic Party—an institution that has actually killed people. I think I’ll be alright talking to Black church folk and winning over those who can be won. The Black church, even w/ all its flaws, is lightyears better than the Democratic Party
- Lol, one time I was doing a talk at a Black church back in 2014 and I came in supa hot like, “Obama’s state department suppressed Haitian workers who were set to win legislation to get a raise to $1.75 *a day*, he is wack.” Ppl gasped haha, but I had to keep it funky.
- But in 2015 I was in West Baltimore the day after the riots, distributing food in the streets, and I was talking to a Black woman whose house was immediately across from the national guard barricades at the police station. Not long into the talk she was like “fuck Obama” lol
- What I discovered inplaces like West Baltimore or even the west side of Chicago, there was a rising level of recognition that Obama’s election hadn’t actually done much for poor Black folk. But the main ppl capitalizing on the discontent are to the right & non-socialist. Not good
- It’s the same situation w/ the Trump thing or the rise in white nationalism, many Black folk notice and are agitated, but without socialist leadership winning ppl over, the ppl out there making gains are often on the right. That’s why I engage a range of Black folk
- It was the Black church that was the hub in West Baltimore where we were distributing food when the city was shut down the day after riots. Some of those church folk said things that were backwards, and we engaged in struggle over these ideas. It was good. That’s what it takes
- But you have to understand that 1) Black people are oppressed “as a people” 2) Black churches are important sites of cultural reproduction 3) Black folk and their institutions, even when expressing backwards ideas, are not simply interchangeable w/ white folk & their institutions
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