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I've reblogged this from the BLACK GIRL DANGEROUS blog, by Mia McKenzie out of San Francisco. It's occurred to me this week in East Flatbush that revolutions don't start when somebody announces "this is the revolution. please turn to page 45 of State and Revolution to see what we do next." Something about this blogpost is inspirational, is hopeful, and revolutionary, and says something about a moment I think is coming back.
--ISH
Dear Humanity,
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What has been holding Black liberation back for the past few decades? Why have so many of the so-called leaders of Black people in the United States ignored the plight of the poorest sections of Blacks and catered to the few wealthy Blacks and the middle class? What would a new Black liberation movement based among the most oppressed sections of Black people and united with other oppressed peoples and broader sections of US society actually look like? The following article by Bruce A Dixon appeared on Black Agenda Report and lays out some of the history of why Black politics is in its current state.
How Ghetto Politics Has Outlived the Ghetto, and Still Holds All Of Us Back
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
The class of cultural, business and political hacks who pass themselves off as “black leaders” never tire of celebrating the sixties. But they have nothing to say about the seventies, eighties or nineties when the prison state and drug war engulfed the black lower classes and the gains of the New Deal and Great Society rolled back, all during their watch. They're ghetto politicians, and ghetto politics have failed.
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No, this story is not from The Onion.
Largest Private Prison Group in U.S. Wishes You a Happy Black History Month
by Jorge Rivas
On Monday, the president of the largest for-profit prison corporation in the nation published a blog post wishing everyone a happy Black History Month. Damon Hininger, president and CEO of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), also urged readers to celebrate the month by honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “dream of equality for all people.”
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Kasama is a communist project for the forcible overthrow and transformation of all existing social conditions. We are open to learning, unafraid to admit our own uncertainties. We will not shrink from what we do know: the solutions cannot be found within the current world order or the choices it provides. We are for revolution. We seek to find the forms of organization and action for the people most dispossessed by this system to free themselves and all humanity.
To take this road, we need a fearless, open-eyed debate, discussion and engagement. We need fresh analyses of the rapid changes shaping the world around us. We need to sum up a century of revolutionary strategies and attempts, victories and defeats – instead of the conventional wisdom and facile verdicts that paralyze our movements. We need to re-imagine a radical politics that can take life among people and move mountains.
