In the current political climate, Black and progressive activists should focus on locally-based efforts, said author and veteran organizer Kevin Alexander Gray. âWe donât have anybody on the national scene thatâs saying anything coherent,â said Gray, speaking from his hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. âTheyâre saying those sound bites to stay on TV, and smiling and skinninâ and grinninâ,â but âtheyâre disconnected from the struggle, disconnected from their history. People see them as frauds, and thatâs a good thing, as we organize at the local level.â
âAinât no power like the power of the peopleâ âcause the power of the people donât stop!â bouncing off summer skyscrapers; ricocheting off resistance
Why is more effort is put into trying to discredit CCOP, while the ruling class is pulling all stops to hoodwink the public with actual reformism, like the George Floyd Act.
Just like we glorified the black leather jackets, black berets, and guns in the 60s, we still romanticize African people with guns and mouths that fire more inaccurately than the guns they carry.
The martyred revolutionaryâs assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.
To break cyclical, systemic oppression requires a functionality that rejects reified notions of governance, global capitalism, and accommodation.
