In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. “We don’t have anybody on the national scene that’s saying anything coherent,” said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. “They’re saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinnin’ and grinnin’,” but “they’re disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and that’s a good thing, as we organize at the local level.”
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
One approach treats injustice as discreet individual actions, the other recognizes the weight of world history.
The global depression has fossil fuel corporations reeling, but only a people’s movement can take away their power to poison the planet.
The Historical Quest for a Black Nation
The contemporary Black struggle should draw on the experience and example of maroons, the escaped slaves that formed communities of freedom beyond the reach of the slave masters, said
