The End of Black Politics

By artappraiser on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 10:30am |

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (bio copied in first comment)

“Black electoral success has not translated into qualitative improvements in black life.” https://t.co/1HfxGUPOxk
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 12, 2020

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/opinion/sunday/black-politicians-george-floyd-protests.html

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NYTimes op-ed author bio:

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Housing policy, racial inequality and social movements.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and a contributing opinion writer. Her work explores the relationship between public policy and racial inequality, particularly in housing. She also writes about U.S.-based social movements.

She is the author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" and "Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership" as well as the editor of "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective."

In 2016, she was named one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. The Organization of American Historians has appointed her as a distinguished lecturer.

(She has written 8 pieces for NYTimes so far, since Aug. 2017)

by artappraiser on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 10:36am

From the NYT article

Representation in the halls of power has clearly worked for some, but we must talk about those it hasn’t worked for. We have not seen, in decades, protests with the scale or scope of those that were unleashed by the killing of George Floyd. New, young, black leaders with the Movement for Black Lives are now emerging, leaders unencumbered by past failures and buoyed by their connection to the ruckus in the streets

From the M4BL website

M4BL demands an end to the wars against Black people. We demand repair for the harms that have been done to Black communities, in the form of reparations and targeted long- term investments. We demand economic justice. We demand defunding and dismantling of the systems and institutions that criminalize, control, and cage us. We demand divestment from ideologies, laws, policies, and practices that harm us, and investment in our communities and movements. We demand political power and community control over the institutions that govern our lives.

We demand nothing short of liberation.

https://m4bl.org/black-august/

by rmrd0000 on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 10:58am

The End of Black Politics

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