“We need revolutionary change in this country,” said Ajamu Baraka, the veteran human rights activist who ran for vice president on the Green Party ticket and is currently organizing the Black Alliance for Peace. The Democratic Party has been “the main impediment for us developing the kind of radical, oppositional politics and consciousness that we have to build,” said Baraka, an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report. “Most of our community understand where the Republicans are coming from, but it has been the Democratic Party that has been the source of ideological confusion” in Black America.
White supremacist culture is a permanent site of predatory consumption, extraction and violation.
The federal government’s stimulus payments and the role of black police officers were on your minds.
Racial capitalism is insidious and malleable, and can adapt to nearly any political context.
To read In the Wake is to read a love letter to Black people in the everywhere of this world.
Mutual aid tends to expose the reality that people lack what they need, while also creating spaces to meet those needs and build a shared analysis.
