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thread that's onto something

artappraiser — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 22:15:18 +0000

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thread that's onto something because he's a screenwriter and fiction writer, a little too simplistic and groups too big, but still worth noting:

https://twitter.com/darylsturgis/status/1299777688807313408

“There are better ways to

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:07:08 +0000

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“There are better ways to study race. In a 2016 paper, Sen & Wasow propose researchers should think about race not as an essential set of unchangeable biological characteristics but rather as what they call ‘a bundle of sticks‘ that includes many factors.” https://t.co/mmutYbucb2
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) August 14, 2020

Reed writing about Obama in

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:20:33 +0000

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Reed writing about Obama in 1996 pic.twitter.com/n9ZCGBaAv5
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 14, 2020

One of the sharpest academics

artappraiser — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 16:19:01 +0000

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One of the sharpest academics in America gets a write up from one of the sharpest reporters https://t.co/uYsJQMjFLm
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) August 14, 2020

By Michael Powell about Adolph Reed: The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people?

Beginning excerpt:

Adolph Reed is a son of the segregated South, a native of New Orleans who organized poor Black people and antiwar soldiers in the late 1960s and became a leading Socialist scholar at a trio of top universities.

Along the way, he acquired the conviction, controversial today, that the left is too focused on race and not enough on class. Lasting victories were achieved, he believed, when working class and poor people of all races fought shoulder to shoulder for their rights.

In late May, Professor Reed, now 73 and a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, was invited to speak to the Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City chapter. The match seemed a natural. Possessed of a barbed wit, the man who campaigned for Senator Bernie Sanders and skewered President Barack Obama as a man of “vacuous to repressive neoliberal politics” would address the D.S.A.’s largest chapter, the crucible that gave rise to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a new generation of leftist activism.

His chosen topic was unsparing: He planned to argue that the left’s intense focus on the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus on Black people undermined multiracial organizing, which he sees as key to health and economic justice.

Notices went up. Anger built. How could we invite a man to speak, members asked, who downplays racism in a time of plague and protest? To let him talk, the organization’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus stated, was “reactionary, class reductionist and at best, tone deaf.”

“We cannot be afraid to discuss race and racism because it could get mishandled by racists,” the caucus stated. “That’s cowardly and cedes power to the racial capitalists." [....]

Very discerning - must be one

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 01:34:55 +0000

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Very discerning - must be one of those Jung Turks Ive been hearing about

You're talking ethnicity,

artappraiser — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 01:29:08 +0000

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You're talking ethnicity, though. Now here's a gal/guy who's really down with those skin color categories, just ain't going to let those go as much as Inaya and friends try to convince otherwise:

why are people talking about the race of turkish people as if there arent white turks, asian turks, black turks... im
— nil ceo of s1 sam (@drakesend) August 5, 2020

Was watching a Malcolm

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:17:00 +0000

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Was watching a Malcolm Gladwell talk Yesterday where He was noting his 4 identities: British, Canadian, New York and black Jamaican. Oddly enough, without the last he would give up so much - just another White dude, co-opting other cultures, it just working off privilege. Instead it's accepted he can be a culture Whisperer, parsing the vagaries of our societal faultlines, when Its probably his geekiness and sheer love of writing that really informs his success - he just keeps going, finds/digs up something else to write about.

Replacing one type of racist assumptions for another Is not progress. History Is full of civilizations that ran over each other. Alexander largely just overwrote Cyrus' empire with enhancements. The Romans bootstrapped via ripping off the Phoenicians' stomping grounds. Probably someone thought these new Greek and Roman ethnic types would be a great improvement over their precursors. Moscow grabbed hold of the successful Viking/Rus trade routes via Novgorod to the Black Ses (plus were tapped by the Mongols to be their local chosen Mafia bagmen and controllers). The Celt privileged got moved out of Central Europe into Galicia and the Isles. Lather, rinse, repeat.

"We need to abolish race" by

artappraiser — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 23:33:26 +0000

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"We need to abolish race" by Inaya Folarin Iman:

Good, clear piece here (and appreciate the shoutout to me and @kmele): "We therefore do not have to be defined by the designations (or indeed identities) imposed upon us. This includes not just the designations of racists, but those of anti-racists, too." https://t.co/QwCLkI5Jia
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) August 4, 2020

I agree that her clarity in writing about topic is stellar! She has obviously thought long and hard and distilled an essence that is easy to read. For that reason, it's a good article to share.

Check Ur email

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 05:22:59 +0000

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Check Ur email

I couldn't access this review

artappraiser — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 05:06:29 +0000

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I couldn't access this review but clearly from her tweet it's a rave to the max:

My privilege to review one of the most significant works of our time. https://t.co/FbVSvpG4pU
— Joshunda Sanders (@JoshundaSanders) August 3, 2020