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Margaret Kimberley of BAR wrote a good commentary on DEI. basically a tool of the PMC, MAGA wouldn't understand this. If they did, they wouldn't care. I'd like to share a thought on identity politics if I may.

I was listening to a three year old podcast by a lady with the African American Revolutionary Party (I believe an offshoot of Omali Yeshitela's work) stressing the need for Black and Brown communities living in the belly of the beast to work together. Truer even more now, still only traces of it but I feel there's hope. Ultimately we need to work with White people here, but can only be a reality when we have equal voices. Whites can learn from us. They are good at organizing when it's centered on weapons and violence. For many reasons Black/Brown are good at organizing to serve our communities. There may be some of this in poor white areas, nothing in those "newly poor" places that i'm aware of.

Fred Hampton was successful in bringing together Black Brown and White, we know what happened to him. It can be done again tho. I work and stay in the Hood so kinda insulated I guess. Problem I see by reading Naked Capitalism and other white sources is when Bl/Br discuss issues pertaining to us it's "identity politics". They don't accept or even see that being White is an identity too. I don't see much of this attitude from the White folks who come here - but those are the White folks who come here.

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Your projected writings sound interesting. "We Were Never Woke" review in particular. As young people 50 years ago we picked Woke up from the Black community, some say it originally referred to non-racist Whites but we used it to mean politically aware, generally but not exclusively referencing non-whites, in the manner decolonized is used now.

I really hate that word "wokeness". It is nothing like how we used Woke.

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