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“Donald Trump and his supporters, they want to be white without judgment,” says Glaude. “History is a battleground, because history, of course, holds them to account.”"

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    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: The Revolt Eclipses Whatever The World Has to Offer with Idris Robinson</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this episode, we are joined by Idris Robinson to unpack his book, The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer [https://massivebookshop.com/products/9781635902433?_pos=1&_sid=db620e222&_ss=r ], a searing meditation on race, revolt, civil war, and the psychic wreckage of American life.

Reflecting on the 2020 uprisings, Robinson challenges the myth of Black leadership, reframes racial violence through the lens of a “morbid libidinal economy,” and argues that revolution is as much a transformation of the human spirit as it is a political event. Drawing on the legacies of Black insurgency, Robinson interrogates liberalism, identity politics, and the hollowing out of American cities—while pondering on what it would take to make life human again in a society built to dehumanize. He argues that racial violence, especially spectacular acts of white supremacist brutality. cannot be adequately explained by frameworks like identity politics, intersectionality, or privilege theory. Instead, these acts emerge from repressed desires and psychic forces intrinsic to white supremacy. The 2020 uprisings, in this sense, exposed both emancipatory and repressive violence rooted in these deeper libidinal dynamics.

Robinson also reflects on his personal trajectory, from Occupy Wall Street through development as a theorist, where he grounds his meditation on revolt as humanizing forces. He argues that American capitalism produces profound isolation, psychic damage, and undead social beings, hollowed out by commodification. Uprisings momentarily restore humanity by breaking atomization and re‑creating collective meaning.
 
On strategy, Robinson challenges traditional socialist models of seizing the “means of production,” arguing instead that modern revolt must focus on logistics and infrastructure: transport hubs, electrical grids, supply chains, and urban circulation. He emphasizes blockades, control of space, and understanding the built environment as key to sustaining insurrection in a post‑industrial economy. We devote substantial attention to Robinson’s provocative argument that civil war is not a future possibility but a current condition in the United States. Drawing on classical theory, Black radical thought, and historical analogy, he frames civil war as the collision of public (political) and private (libidinal, racial, familial) spheres. While acknowledging its violence and trauma, Robinson argues that fracture and decentralization may paradoxically make revolutionary transformation more achievable, pointing to Reconstruction after the U.S. Civil War as the most emancipatory period in American history.

Idris Robinson is a philosopher from the New York hinterlands. For over a decade, he has written extensively on crisis and revolt. He is the author of The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer (MIT Press / Semiotext(e)) and Escritos desde la tierra baldía (Irrupción Ediciones). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, where he is completing a monograph-length study on the progression of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy. He is currently undergoing a legal battle with TSU after the school violated his constitutional rights by ending his contract after he gave an off-campus Pro-Palestine talk [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine ]. 
 
If you like what we do and want to support our ability to have more conversations like this. Please consider becoming a Patron at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism. You can do so for as little as a 1 Dollar a month. 
 
Links:

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https://idrisrobinson.me/

About Idris Robinson's case against Texas State University
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/25/professor-texas-state-university-israel-palestine

Support Idris Robinson's Legal Fund
https://www.givesendgo.com/GKRFR "]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["1. Is Marin County's Grooviest White Feminist Icon, Rebecca Solnit, "Leaning In" to Genocide? 2. A Ceasefire Petition Gains Traction in Fairfax"

...

"Rebecca Solnit: The WTO Protest Writer Who Came In From The Cold?

The Monday before Thanksgiving, I opened my email, and there, featured prominently in a fundraising drive for The Guardian, was columnist Rebecca Solnit's name. I had been up late that evening trying to follow what was happening in Gaza, a task made more difficult by the many dozens of Palestinian reporters who had already been killed by Israeli airstrikes since mid-October, and I wondered about Solnit's position.

Surely a writer who had profited nicely from writing about the environment, displacement, land rights, and indigenous peoples, would have much to say about the plight of Palestinians. The Palestinian people are, however inconveniently, indigenous to Palestine, a fact largely ignored by "eco-feminist" indigenous-obsesssed liberals in Solnit's lily-white home county of Marin.

I assumed that I had to have missed something, so I tried to search for articles that Solnit had written about the prior six weeks of bombing, but came up with nothing. This surprised me since Solnit had apparently written much about the plight of Ukrainians (much in line with the US State Department position.)

In the aftermath of the 2016 election debacle, Solnit had morphed into a feminist champion of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (as feminist victim, of course.) But, depressingly, Hillary Clinton was the opposite of a victim – she had an abysmal and bloody record as Secretary of State under the Obama administration – a fact that had deadly results for millions of women from the Middle East to Latin America.

Solnit had also written a very disturbing article praising the far-right Narendra Modi, and when one prominent East Coast writer politely pointed out Modi's systematic use of mass rape against opponents, Solnit blocked them. The pro-Modi article, and Solnit's passionate defense of Hillary Clinton occurred after what was Solnit's breakthrough "feminist" book, Men Explain Things To Me. The success of the book elevated Solnit in the public eye, and this appears to be where she started to morph into a more commercially saleable purveyor of "hope in dark times.”

(My DM's and emails have been filled by writers who worked with Solnit, suggesting that Solnit's left credentials were never what they appeared to be. That may be so, but from the outside looking in, it does seem that there was a clear break starting around 2015.)

Still, it seemed unusual that Solnit would have written nothing about Gaza, so I checked her Twitter(X) account, which is where these things would most readily turn up, as the app is still busy with left-leaning writers and journalists, and is a still-critical if greatly diminished conduit for the left. A keyword search on Solnit’s Twitter(X) account for "Palestinian" turned up nothing at all, and there was only one oblique tweet that could be summoned by the keyword search "Gaza":

"Without in any way diminishing the horror of what's happening in Gaza, I'd note that in Ukraine there have been huge numbers of military deaths, including 70k Ukrainians, many of them civilians turned soldiers in defense against the invasion."

[screenshot]

Consider that for a moment. Solnit's tweet does in fact diminish the horror of what had already happened in Gaza, as it very politely declines to indicate that the (now) over 20,000 deaths caused by Israel's nonstop bombardment of Gaza are overwhelmingly civilian, a fact already obvious on November 2, when Solnit tweeted that.

Solnit's lone statement on Gaza almost looks like it could have been crafted for, or by, the US State Department, which has in reality fully backed Israel's genocidal bombing campaign.

Bear in mind that as Solnit appears to have waffled on the issue of Palestine, writers of greater and lesser stature are continuing to suffer consequences for merely signing letters in support of Palestinians, and ordinary workers are losing their jobs for speaking up. Black writers and performers appear to have been particularly targeted for speaking up in defense of Palestinians, part of a long pattern.

Since I couldn't find anything Solnit had written about Palestine, I did the responsible thing, and I asked her directly via Twitter(X) if I was missing something. My question, in total, was direct:

"Am I spelling "Gaza" or Palestinian wrong? I'm just wondering: is this really the only thing that Solnit has written about the current genocidal bombing of Gaza by Israel? A passing reference?”

[screenshot]

Solnit responded within a few hours:

"As I said to the last person policing my speech, do your homework before your condemnations because you missed a lot of stuff going back years. Also ask yourself why you're running around policing strangers.”

[screenshot]

This was a curious reply, because I had neither policed her speech, nor condemned her. I had merely asked what the public position of a prominent public figure was. Solnit's response seemed to me classically Marin County: Ask a simple question of a public figure or public official, and they will feign offense ("How dare you ask me, you peon!") rather than simply answer the question.

I pointed out to Solnit that I wasn't policing speech, rather asking for her position on a topic that almost every other progressive or left-ish writer had opined on one way or another. Solnit replied:

"You are policing speech, because you think you get to render public verdicts on me without doing your homework first, and yeah, Mr. Cop, you can find stuff this week and this month if you bother to look, not that it's my job to do your homework."

[screenshot]

I wasn't sure how to interpret her insistence on calling me "Mr. Cop", but it seemed possible that Solnit is so accustomed to defending herself by calling others sexist that she was incapable of considering the possibility that the person asking her a question she didn't like was female.

Aside from that, asking for someone's position on an issue as grave as the genocidal bombing of Palestinians in Gaza was not “rendering” anything close to a “public verdict” on anyone.

Further, a sincere question on a vital political issue should not be that difficult to answer for Solnit, who is paid for her public opinions. Why was Solnit so eager to take offense? Was it simply a means of distracting — or trying to distract — from her refusal simply to take a position?

Two other people ventured forward in the thread and politely asked Solnit if she wouldn't mind providing her position on the issue. Both were blocked simply for asking. One of those people was the aforementioned Ruth, who had merely asked Solnit:

"Please tell me you condemn genocide. It's sad that it has to be clarified, but it really does."

[screenshot]

(This, by the way, is classic Ruth. A woman who does not have a roof over her head, and has not had one for many years, still always has her heart open to the suffering of other people, even those who are half a world away. Ruth is devoted to the ideal of democracy, the essential component of which is asking questions, which she always does very politely and with respect to other peoples' feelings.)

Ruth was blocked by Solnit, but not before Solnit sent her a very curious message, complete with an image of what appears to a historical photograph of a Nazi official checking identity papers that was not only inappropriate, but was, particularly in this context, downright bizarre.

"Obviously, I codemn all genocides and I've condemned this one publicly, and I also condemn complete strangers who, in a 'show me your papers' way, demand responses like this out of the blue."

[screenshot]

Let's examine Solnit's reply to an unhoused woman writer in Los Angeles who very politely asked a simple question:

Solnit wrote that she condemns the genocide, including this one, but still does not mention the word Palestinian. Solnit wrote in the very next sentence that she also condemns anyone asking her position, which seems to imply that "genocide" and "being asked a question" are both to be condemned. Wait, what? Why should asking a reasonable and valid question (and of a public figure such as Solnit) be condemned? What sort of a writer would try to discourage valid and relevant questions at all? Particularly a question about one's position on an ongoing genocide?

I like to imagine the possibility of a better world. Not a world wherein a wealthy white writer like Rebecca Solnit mocks an unhoused woman in Los Angeles, but one wherein Rebecca Solnit, an influential writer who still has a conscience, both answers the woman’s question and extends a helping hand to that unhoused woman in Los Angeles who is also a terrific writer. (Let me dream, baby!)

It would have been simple enough for Solnit just to provide a link to a public statement or an article. Was it merely an ego problem on Solnit's part, or something more complicated? There is a clear affinity, as repeatedly emphasized in Solnit's own recent writings, with US State Department policies.

And here, in Solnit's blustering, one can hear an echo of Gloria Steinem's (far smoother and more confident) defense of the CIA.

The Bechdel Test? Why Isn't There A Caceres Test?

Some years back, the writer/illustrator Alison Bechdel formulated a test, a quick measure of women's representation in film and fiction. The test is whether a book or film features at least two women who are permitted to hold a conversation about something that does not involve a man. Bechdel herself never intended this to be a serious test, and so I offer the following not as a test but as contemplation:

Berta Caceres was an indigenous environmental activist in Honduras who fought everything from a hydroelectric dam to logging interests. She was a real-life hero, whether she won the prestigious Goldman Prize for environmental activism (she did!) or not. Caceres had allegedly pleaded with Clinton's State Department for protection after the US supported the 2009 overthrow of the democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya; Caceres was inundated by death threats after a new (U.S.-friendly!) government was installed. Although many groups attested to the threats Caceres faced, Secretary Clinton dismissed her concerns, and Caceres was subsequently assassinated on March 3, 2016 by a soldier who had been trained in part by US Special Forces.

Berta Caceres was only 44 years old, 11 years younger than I am now, and 17 years younger than Rebecca Solnit is now. Which is to say that Berta Caceres was not given the luxury of time that Solnit and I, both raised in Marin County, have been given.

Berta Caceres is also a name that is barely mentioned in Marin County, even amongst women who claim to be environmental activists, feminists, and defenders of all that is indigenous. I have not been able to locate an article by Marin County's Rebecca Solnit about Berta Caceres, but it does not mean she did not write one. (I was blocked by Solnit on Twitter after my questions last Monday, and queries to her publishing team earlier this past week have not yet been answered.)

But if we can consider a "Bechdel test", we might also consider a Caceres Test:?Are the influential white women who claim to be feminists, environmental activists, and champions of all that is indigenous refusing to speak the name of Berta Caceres? Does the name Berta Caceres embarass the local political machine that endorsed the Clintons, and still hews to the worst of their neoliberal policies?

If you look more closely, how many degrees of separation exist between some of these white feminists and the business interests that Berta Caceres was fighting? Why did white feminists need to strip all the essential parts - the intersectional parts relating to class, race, labor and property ownership - from feminism itself?"]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-09-19T22:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In her new book, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America (Harvard University Press), the historian and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis unpacks a major part of United States history that until now wasn’t just brushed over, but was intentionally buried: how the ​​Caucasian War and the end of the Civil War were conflated by P.T. Barnum, former President Woodrow Wilson, and others to shape how we see race in America. Long overdue, The Unseen Truth is a watershed book about photography and visuality that calls to mind works by history-shaping authors such as James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and bell hooks. Lewis is also the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative, which strives to educate the public about the importance of art and culture for equity and justice in the U.S., and is launching a new publishing venture with Aperture this fall.

On the episode, she discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass’s 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of her life and The Unseen Truth; and the special ability of certain photographs to stop time.

Special thanks to our Season 10 presenting sponsor, L’École, School of Jewelry Arts.

Show notes:

Sarah Lewis
https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-lewis

[04:01] The Unseen Truth
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674238343

[05:24] Woodrow Wilson
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/

[05:24] Frederick Douglass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

[05:24] P.T. Barnum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._T._Barnum

[06:51] Toni Morrison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

[06:51] Angela Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

[06:51] Mathew Brady
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Brady

[51:14] Vision & Justice
https://visionandjustice.org/

[11:35] Caucasus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus

[14:02] Imam Shamil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Shamil

[17:38] Caucasian War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_War

[19:31] MFA Boston
https://www.mfa.org/

[19:31] The Metropolitan Museum
https://www.metmuseum.org/

[22:30] “Pictures and Progress”
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2020/02/frederick-douglass-and-the-power-of-pictures/

[28:41] “A Circassian”
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/30883

[28:41] “Slave Ship”
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31102

[28:41] “The Gulf Stream”
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11122

[35:13] Frances Benjamin Johnston
https://www.moma.org/artists/7851

[39:20] Jarvis Givens
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/jarvis-givens

[39:20] Fugitive Pedagogy
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674278752

[44:05] The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search of Mastery
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Rise/Sarah-Lewis/9781451629248

[49:08] Montserrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat

[49:08] Under the Volcano
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9598492/

[51:36] Aperture
https://aperture.org/

[52:26] Maurice Berger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Berger

[52:26] Coreen Simpson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreen_Simpson

[52:26] Doug Harris
https://sncclegacyproject.org/doug-harris-remembers-the-march-on-washington/

[52:26] Deborah Willis
https://debwillisphoto.com/home.html

[52:26] Leigh Raiford
https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/leigh-raiford/

[52:57] Hal Foster
https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/hal-foster

[56:01] Hank Willis Thomas
https://timesensitive.fm/episode/hank-willis-thomas-on-acknowledging-the-multitudes-of-truths-among-us/

[56:01] Theaster Gates
https://www.theastergates.com/about

[56:01] Mark Bradford
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2838-mark-bradford/

[56:01] Amy Sherald
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/11577-amy-sherald/

[57:58] Wynton Marsalis
https://timesensitive.fm/episode/wynton-marsalis-on-jazz-as-a-tool-for-understanding-life/

[57:58] Charles Black
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Black_%28professor%29

[57:58] Louis Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong

[57:58] Brown v. Board of Education
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/brown-v-board-of-education "]]></description>
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    <title>When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer by Bill Ayers: 9780807020340 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-16T02:26:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["An esteemed activist invites us to consider the complex idea of abolition as much more than a strategy or a set of tactics—at a deeper level, abolition is an entire political framework, culture, and orientation

Blending history and political theory and weaving in examples from literature, social movements, and his personal life, this book is a useful resource and primer for those interested in fighting for social justice. Guided by questions like what is freedom?, how do we get free?, and what are the freedom dreams that encourage us and drive us forward?, esteemed activist Bill Ayers explores the concept of freedom in eight essays:

- Freedom/Unfreedom takes off from the Black Freedom Movement in the 20th Century as a template for social justice movements that followed, and begins to illuminate the idea of freedom in light of what folks come together to oppose.

- Freedom’s Paradox offers examples of a contradiction (from Frederick Douglass to the French Resistance to the Panthers)—even, or especially, in the most dire circumstances, people testify to “being free” at the moment they identify and unite to oppose unfreedom.

- Social Freedom/Individual Liberty directly takes on the link between the individual and the social when freedom is the question.

- Freedom, Anarchism, and Socialism takes off from the idea that freedom without socialism is predation and exploitation, and that socialism without freedom is bondage and subjugation.

- Freedom, Truth, and Repair considers reparations as a necessary step in any honest attempt toward authentic reconciliation.

- Organizing Freedom is a primer on organizing, strategy, and tactics for freedom fighters.

- Teach Freedom considers what an education for free people entails.

- Freedom and Abolition connects an enriched understanding of what freedom entails with an embrace of abolitionist politics."]]></description>
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    <title>The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti - Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-23T18:45:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For Frederick Douglass, and for Black activists across the United States, there was no place more important to global Black freedom than Haiti."

[rest of series here:
https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/haitian-independence/

"In this series commissioned by Marlene L. Daut, scholars reveal what 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world."]]]></description>
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    <title>Haitian Independence Archives - Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2024-01-23T18:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this series commissioned by Marlene L. Daut, scholars reveal what 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.

HAITI’S BLUEPRINTS OF BLACK SOVEREIGNTY by N. FRÉDÉRIC PIERRE
[https://www.publicbooks.org/haitis-blueprints-of-black-sovereignty/ ]
How was a self-proclaimed Black nation to define its role in an Atlantic world deeply entwined with enslaved Black labor?

ENEMY OF THE STATE by DÉLIDE JOSEPH
[https://www.publicbooks.org/enemy-of-the-state/ ]
Félix Darfour accused the post-independence Haitian republic with corruption. He lost his life for it.

COUNTER-PLANTATION NATION by LAURENT DUBOIS
[https://www.publicbooks.org/counter-plantation-nation/ ]
The language and culture of Kreyòl, as well as the Vodou religion, reveal a vision of Haitian sovereignty on behalf of those formerly enslaved.

HAITI: WHAT SOVEREIGNTY? by LEWIS AMPIDU CLORMÉUS
[https://www.publicbooks.org/haiti-what-sovereignty/ ]
After winning independence, the West rushed to teach Haiti a lesson so that their revolutionary experience would not recur on the continent. Haiti suffers the repercussions of such attacks to this day.

THE U.S. HAS NEVER FORGIVEN HAITI by LESLIE M. ALEXANDER
[https://www.publicbooks.org/the-us-has-never-forgiven-haiti/ ]
For Frederick Douglass, and for Black activists across the United States, there was no place more important to global Black freedom than Haiti.

“WE HAVE DARED TO BE FREE” by JULIA GAFFIELD
[https://www.publicbooks.org/we-have-dared-to-be-free/ ]
Haiti truly manifested the principles of liberty, but international resistance and racism have worked for 220 years to undermine its sovereignty.

HOW HAITI DESTROYED SLAVERY AND LED THE WAY TO FREEDOM THROUGHOUT THE ATLANTIC WORLD by MARLENE L. DAUT
[https://www.publicbooks.org/how-haiti-destroyed-slavery/ ]
Not the United States, Great Britain, France, or any other enslaver deserves credit for ending slavery. Atlantic abolition began with Haiti."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the essay “Theory as Liberatory Practice,” the writer bell hooks offers an account of her initial attraction to theory. It had nothing to do with cherished books or favorite teachers—nothing to do with education, as we think of it, at all. She’d had a sad childhood. “I came to theory because I was hurting,” she wrote. “I found a place where I could imagine possible futures, a place where life could be lived differently.” Wilderson’s philosophical framework is impersonal; Blackness, for him, is a structural position. But “Afropessimism” is also, in its way, a chronicle of personal pain. The book opens after Columbia, after South Africa, when Wilderson is a “middle-aged graduate student,” experiencing what he refers to as a psychotic episode. He’s staring into the mirror in his apartment, feeling “as though my shirt were made of insects.” He starts to drool, and, fearing that his white neighbors will hurt him if he cries out for help, makes his own way to the hospital. It’s a jarring, dramatic curtain-raiser, and it gives the rest of the book the feeling of a flashback—all these events are the prelude to a breakdown.

But, unlike hooks, Wilderson does not choose to imagine possible futures. The only way to cure the condition of slavery that ails Black people, he says, is “the end of the world.” There will have to be a total end to things—an apocalypse. From civilization’s ashes something truly new might finally grow. How to hasten this final reckoning? Wilderson doesn’t say. To offer some further prescription would be a betrayal of the style of his book, and of the shape of his ideas.

For all the word’s problematic history, I like “Black” as a shorthand for African-descended people everywhere precisely because of its indefiniteness, its fluidity, its fealty to no nation. It is as fleeting and symbolically rich as the color image it brings to mind, and is always flirting with and escaping strict classification. It brings me joy. It tends, on its best days, to grow. The cultural theorist Stuart Hall, in his posthumous memoir, “Familiar Stranger,” writes of the colonial Jamaica of his youth, in which middle-class “colored” families like his—their brownish skin the product of congress between white colonial planters and the descendants of African slaves—would never think to call themselves Black. That word was reserved as a slur for the darker-skinned, lower-class masses, against whom people like Hall’s mother defined themselves. (In the wildly mixed society of antebellum New Orleans, some “colored” Creoles—people who today would undoubtedly be considered Black—were not only free but owned darker-skinned slaves.) Only when Hall moved to England to study, and started to meet other African-descended people—first from other West Indian islands, eventually from points all over the world—did he understand Blackness as a wide-ranging political category, always unfixed but centered on justice for all, including the colonized Third World peoples of Asia and Latin America, who were their siblings in struggle.

Something similar is happening right now among people of Latino heritage. Many of the Dominican kids I knew when I was growing up in Washington Heights had skin as dark and hair as kinky as mine. None of them would ever have called themselves Black. (Some of their parents made it a point, they told me, to periodically remind them that they weren’t.) Today, an increasing acceptance of, and pride in, African heritage among young Puerto Ricans and Dominicans means that many of these people celebrate their “Afro-Latinidad.” By Wilderson’s lights, were these people humans before this change of mind, but slaves now? Were they always socially dead, but pitifully unaware? Does Blackness have simply to do with ancestry, with which box a person ticks off on the census, or with how that person is seen by the police and understood by the state? My preference, in any case, is just to say, “Welcome home.”

The most radiant American example of an always gathering, instinctively expansive conception of Blackness comes from the Black radical feminist tradition. One of its most famous documents, the Combahee River Collective Statement, is frank about the woeful position of Black women in society, and about how poorly they have been treated by others—including Black men—who should be their allies. “We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our liberation are us,” the statement says. Still, the collective was steadfast in its commitment to solidarity, and asserted that the “position” of Black lesbians—oppressed by dint of class, race, gender, and sexual orientation—would help their struggle against capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia, and would help bring about the freedom of the entire world. “We might use our position at the bottom,” the statement says, “to make a clear leap into revolutionary action. If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” That’s an end of days I’d like to see. It will require, I think, a conviction that our lives, however devalued, have many facets, and that we are all intimately related, and that one sufficiently emancipatory gesture might scoop us all up."]]></description>
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    <title>Coates and West in Jackson | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-24T19:17:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For my part, I see value in putting Coates’s and West’s perspectives in dialogue. To be clear, I am not interested in repeating or endorsing West’s critique here, and Coates needs no one to defend him, certainly not me. Readers of Boston Review know that I have taken issue with parts of his Between the World and Me (2015)—yet, even when I disagree, I find Coates’s writing generative, thoughtful, and startlingly honest, and he pushes me to think harder and deeper about the depth of racism in both the public and inner life of black America. Rather, I want to offer brief reflections on what I find valuable in both Coates’s recent book, We Were Eight Years in Power (2017), and in West’s insistence on the transformative power of social movements. I believe that the reconciliation of their respective insights might open new directions. My mother raised my siblings and me to be Hegelians (even if his 1807 The Phenomenology of Spirit is not exactly bedtime reading), and that means the purpose of critique is dialectical, to reach a higher synthesis, which in turn reveals new contradictions demanding new critique.

****

West’s position should not surprise anyone, nor should his ideas be reduced to a couple of interviews and a short piece in the Guardian. He has always combined the black prophetic tradition of speaking truth to power with what he identifies as the anti-foundationalism of young Marx—a critical observation central to West’s book, The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991). West’s Black Prophetic Fire (with Christa Buschendorf, 2014) consists of dialogues that consider the lives and work of black prophetic figures, including Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ida B. Wells, and Ella Baker. His insights into these figures are acute and often original, and he refrains from hagiography. For example, he is sharply critical of Douglass, whom he castigates for his relative silence on Jim Crow once he became a fully enfranchised and powerful voice in the Republican Party. The book also contains a subtle indictment of President Barack Obama, implying that his two terms as president, and the emergence of a black neoliberal political class, represent a betrayal of the principles basic to the black prophetic tradition. His criticisms of President Obama are not personal but directed at policies that reflected both the neoliberal turn and the persistence of U.S. imperialism.

Coates found his calling during a particularly combative period for black intellectuals. In March of 1995, West was the target of a scurrilous attack by New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier, an essay promoted on the issue’s cover with the headline “The Decline of the Black Intellectual.” A month later Adolph Reed, Jr. followed with a piece in the Village Voice titled, “What Are the Drums Saying, Booker?: The Curious Role of the Black Public Intellectual” which names West, Michael Eric Dyson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., bell hooks, and yours truly. In the essay, Reed characterizes us as modern-day minstrels and attacks us for being “translators” of black culture to white folks, and thus palatable to fawning white liberals. Reed’s piece left a deep impression on Coates. As he recalls in We Were Eight Years in Power, “I was determined to never be an interpreter. It did not occur to me that writing is always some form of interpretation, some form of translating the specificity of one’s roots or expertise or even one’s own mind into language that can be absorbed and assimilated into the consciousness of a broader audience. Almost any black writer publishing in the mainstream press would necessarily be read by whites. Reed was not exempt. He was not holding forth from The Chicago Defender but from The Village Voice, interpreting black intellectuals for that audience, most of whom were white.”

Those “feuds” of twenty-two years ago also generated an important Boston Review forum that centered on a provocative essay by Reverend Eugene F. Rivers III, “Beyond the Nationalism of Fools: Toward an Agenda for Black Intellectuals” (1995)"

…

"Importantly, Coates’s title is a reference not to Obama’s administration, as many seem to suppose, but rather to Reconstruction and the white backlash that followed its tragic overthrow. Coates quotes Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction (1935): “If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government, it was good Negro government.” Du Bois’s insight is key here; he recognizes that it was the success of Reconstruction in creating arguably the world’s first social democracy that posed the greatest threat to white supremacy. History has a long life: the ways in which formerly enslaved people not only helped overthrow the Confederacy but immediately went to work building a new society—armed, organized, and fighting back—is the story that haunts and illuminates Obama’s presidency.

Coates is certainly attentive to the forces arrayed against the Obama administration, and to the extraordinary hope black people had invested in him, but he is no apologist for Obama."

…

"So what are the substantive differences between West and Coates?

At the end of his Guardian essay, West writes that we cannot afford “to disconnect white supremacy from the realities of class, empire, and other forms of domination—be it ecological, sexual, or others.” Coates would agree. He treats these forms of domination as deeply intertwined but not synonymous: “I have never seen a contradiction between calling for reparations and calling for a living wage, on calling for legitimate law enforcement and single-payer health care. They are related—but cannot stand in for one another. I see the fight against sexism, racism, poverty, and even war finding their union not in synonymity but in their ultimate goal—a world more humane.” He may not map out what that “fight” for a more humane world might look like, but I don’t think his perspective can be reduced, as West does, to “narrow racial tribalism and myopic political neoliberalism.”"

…

"This is where West and Coates part ways. It is not so much their understanding of history, though. West understands that U.S. “democracy” was built on slavery, capitalism, and settler colonialism. But he also recognizes its fragility or malleability in the face of a radical democratic tradition.

This radical democratic tradition cannot be traced to the founding fathers or the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Instead, it is manifest in the struggles of the dispossessed to overturn the Eurocentric, elitist, patriarchal, and dehumanizing structures of racial capitalism and its liberal underpinnings. It is manifest in the struggle to restore the “commons” to the commonwealth, which has been at the heart of radical abolitionism—or what Du Bois called the Abolition Democracy. West knows that social movements, or what he calls “our fightback,” have and will alter history. West believes that we can win. While I wouldn’t call Coates’s vision fatalistic, it is deeply pessimistic because his focus is on structures of race and class oppression, and the policies and ideologies that shore up these structures. He is concerned that we survive."

…

"So I propose that we turn away from the latest celebrity death match, turn our attention to Jackson, Mississippi. Read Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi (2017), edited by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya,  And revisit the work of West and Coates and others wrestling with the critical issues of our times. I stand with West and his unwavering commitment to the power of collective resistance, his optimism of the will. And I stand with Coates and his insistence on a particular kind of pessimism of the intellect that questions everything, stays curious, and is not afraid of self-reflection, uncomfortable questions, or where the evidence takes him.

And above all, I stand with the people of Jackson, who have built the country’s most radical movement, mobilized new forms of political participation, and elected a people’s government committed to building a socialist commonwealth. Free the Land!"]]></description>
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    <title>Cornel West on state of race in the U.S.: &quot;We're in bad shape&quot; - CBS News</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[via: "Showed kids 60 Minutes with Cornel West last night. ("I'm unimpressed by smartness.") http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-cornel-west-on-race-in-the-u-s/ " 
https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/711908596540379136 

"+ See also West on Mandela: "a militant tenderness, subversive sweetness and radical gentleness." http://www.cornelwest.com/nelson_mandela.html " 
https://twitter.com/ablerism/status/711908847695368192 ]

"Cornel West is a different kind of civil rights leader. His below-the-radar presence at racial flash points across America recently, stands in stark contrast to many of the more traditional civil rights leaders and their bright light press conferences.

Some of the new generation of African-American activists seem to be gravitating towards West, a charismatic academic scholar who doesn't lead an organization or have an entourage.

Cornel West has a message about how poor and disadvantaged Americans are being treated today and he can be searingly provocative on matters of race, never more so than when he criticizes President Obama.

Cornel West: When I call the president a black puppet of Wall Street, I was really talking about the degree to which Wall Street had a disproportionate amount of influence on his policies as opposed to poor people and working people.

James Brown: Why use such harsh language with-- showing no respect for the office of the president?

Cornel West: I tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense I'm very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a Malcolm X who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency. So all of that rage and righteous indignation can lead one not to speak politely sometimes.

Eight years ago, Cornel West was a fervent supporter of candidate Barack Obama. Today, he blames the president for not doing more on issues like income inequality and racial justice. A product of the turbulent sixties, West has joined protests led by civil rights groups like Black Lives Matter. Here in Ferguson, Missouri, he was one of many arrested for civil disobedience.

James Brown: The young people who are leading the Black Lives Matter charge, you're all behind them?

Cornel West: Oh, very much so. I think that's a marvelous new militancy that has to do with courage, vision. The fundamental challenge always is will their rage be channeled through hatred and revenge or will it be channeled through love and justice. You got to push 'em toward love and justice.

James Brown: Why do you think you have that kind of currency with young people?

Cornel West: They know that I take their precious lives seriously. When I go to jail in Ferguson and say quite explicitly, "I'm old school, and I want the new school to know that some of us old folk love y'all to death" and they hear that and say, "Well, dang, you know, we might not always-- agree with this brother, but this Negro looks like a fighter for justice."

[March: This is what democracy looks like. Justice!]

Nyle Fort: I think a lot of young people really gravitate towards him not only because he's a giant of an intellectual, he is somebody that you want to be around.

Nyle Fort is a 26-year-old activist and religion PhD student at Princeton. He first saw West speak at a rally four years ago.

James Brown: The manner in which Dr. West has been criticizing the president. Your reaction?

Nyle Fort: I think it's important for us to listen to the substance of his argument. And I think that his critiques not just of President Obama, but of our current state of democracy in this country, the current state of the world, is something that we need to pay attention to.

A favorite on the lecture circuit, we were with him at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, when the crowd of 1,500 broke into applause before he said a word.

Then, for more than an hour, an extemporaneous journey filled with biblical passages and quotes from philosophers and poets about decency and virtue. All in support of West's warning about the dangers of inequality.

Cornel West: I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

Cornel West has diverse influences to say the least; crediting jazz giants John Coltrane and Sarah Vaughan with helping him understand human suffering. West sees civil rights pioneer, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel as one of the great treasures of the 20th century.

Cornel West: It's never a question of skin pigmentation. It's never a question of just culture or sexual orientation or civilization. It's what kind of human being you're going to choose to be from your mama's womb to the tomb and what kind of legacy will you leave.

Cornel West was born 62 years ago in Oklahoma, but grew up in Glen Elder -- a predominantly black neighborhood near Sacramento, California. He is the second of four children. His father, Clifton was a federal administrator and his mother, Irene was a teacher. They were a close-knit, church-going family.

Cornel West: I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from gangster to redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.

James Brown: You actually were a thug when you were a youngster?

Cornel West: Oh absolutely, I got kicked out of school when I was seven-- seven years old.

James Brown: Doing what, Dr. West?

Cornel West: I refused to salute the flag because my great uncle had been lynched with the flag wrapped around his body. So I went back to Sacramento and said, "I'm not saluting the flag." And teacher went at me and hit me, and I hit back. And then we had a Joe Frazier/Muhammad Ali moment right there in the third grade.

Clifton West: He was the only student I ever knew that came home with all As and had to get a whipping.

Clifton West is Cornel's brother, best friend and was his role model growing up. He says behind his little brother's bad behavior, was a relentlessly curious mind.

Clifton West: We had this bookmobile. And we would come out, and check out a book, and go on back in the house and start reading it. So Corn, at one point, I don't know how long it took, he had read every book in the bookmobile.

James Brown: Excuse me?

Clifton West: I don't know it had to be 200 books, easy. And the bookmobile man, who was a white guy, went to all the neighborhoods, little chocolate neighborhoods, saying, "There's this guy in Glen Elder that read every book in here."

Anecdotes like that convinced teachers to give their troubled student an aptitude test. West's recorded IQ: 168.

Cornel West: I got a pretty high score. So they sent me over all the way on the other side of town. Mom used to drive me all the way to school and then drive back to her school where she was teaching first grade.

The new school had a gifted program that challenged his mind and changed his behavior.

James Brown: Was that when you first grabbed hold of the notion that you were smart?

Cornel West: You know, I never really thought I was that smart. Because there was so many other folk in school that I was deeply impressed by. But I'll say this, though, that I've never really been impressed by smartness."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["…beautiful thing about writing is it has no real respect for credentialism. You can get various degrees in writing. (…my initial plan was to get MFA.) But a degree can't make you a writer in the way that JD can make you a lawyer.

Great writing comes from all classes people…all kinds of experience. Edith Wharton was raised rich. EL Doctorow was not. 

When I visit schools around country I consistently repeat this—not because I think school is worthless, but b/c, very often, there are kids in audience who are lost, just as I once was. I don't come there to contravene their education…to tell them to drop out. On the contrary, I try to reinforce the ethic of hard work. But they need to know that a grade in a class, is not who they are—and I would say that whether the grade is an A or F. I failed English in HS…then failed British Literature in college. For whatever reason, it simply wasn't my time. But had I taken those grades as an eternal mark, I doubt I would be talking to you now."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Man is the only government-making animal in the world. His right to a participation in the production and operation of government is in inference from his nature, as direct and self-evident as is his right to acquire property or education. It is no less a crime against the manhood of a man, to declare that he shall not share in the making and directing of the government under which he lives, than to say that he shall not acquire property and education. The fundamental and unanswerable argument in favor of the enfranchisement of the negro is found in the undisputed fact of his manhood. He is a man, and by every fact and argument by which any man can sustain his right to vote, the negro can sustain his right equally. It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all. The doctrine that some men have no rights that others are bound to respect is a doctrine which we must banish, as we have banished slavery, from which it emanated…"]]></description>
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