I know this aint nothing to do with nothing but portent is easily one of my favorite words wish I saw it more often.

Her book is already on the list I just haven't read it yet. Good to hear info about her.

Re Hartman, an older post of mine: Saidiya Hartman is probably the best living anarchistic theorist.

I'm not so sure that's true now but she's still among the best at least. One of the multiple things expressed in this article text is her walking us through her experience of issues with Marxism. And to situate herself a bit in relation to Afropessimism.

For a time, the Chevalier acted as Marie Antoinette’s personal music tutor—until he got fired for getting “too close” to his royal charge. Bow chicka wow wow.

😏

What a legend. I want to go back in time and up vote this man in person.

fun little blog-y journey through his life https://www.factinate.com/people/chevalier-de-st-georges-facts/

Just responding to the headline because I am unmotivated to read this.

But yes that is basically the definition of liberalism.

The main issue I see with discussions about veganism on the internet, and especially on Reddit, is the moralism. Carnist takes don't tend to be any better than pro-vegan ones on that matter, but yeah I don't jive with that "eating meat = always bad in any case" stuff either. Fortunately, Raddle isn't really a place where any sort of "objective morality" steers all discussion on this topic.

Veganism doesn't have to be overwhelmingly white and moralist either. Here's a black anarchist and nihilist take on veganism that I like:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/flower-bomb-what-savages-we-must-be-vegans-without-morality

Sorry, didn't want to throw you off, I really think it's an important topic.

https://raddle.me/f/Vegan/12160/three-ways-black-veganism-challenges-white-supremacy-unlike

CBD oil can help with seizures

(and it's vegan)

Any settler country concept really, for the legislature and cultures continue to tell us we are not Human.

Yet we are expected to be the bigger peoole when we get intentionally murdered.

I think liberals love to talk about how it's stigmatizing to correlate pysoclofically different people with criminals but frankly it's just not very accurate. When talking about people who experience psychosis or are labeled as having cluster B personality disorders criminality is super commonplace.

Like when I frequent bipolar communities it's fucking hilarious bc like most of the people have like super fucked up lives, and or commit crimes frequently, abuse drugs or fuck a lot. Also I can't remember how many times people have described having a manic episode and becoming gay bc it's just more convenient.

It's not really a stereotype to portray the antisocial people with pysoclogical differences as criminals bc psychological normalcy is enforced through the law and most stigmatized mentally different people sympoms are crimes. And if things like pycosis really are genetic (which I don't think it is) then the only crime many incarcerated people commutied was the crime of being born with the wrong DNA.

Okay I have some thoughts to sort out that I'm not ready to quite write out and I jumped the gun a bit here. So part of me feels like I should just delete this since I didn't exain it great and I don't have a conclusion. But maybe I should leave it up in case some people find amusement in seeing my thought process.

Looks like I've got something to read while I slack off at work tomorrow.

New Orleans is a hotbed for this kind of thing. I work for the city. our division, parks and parkways is a modern plantation. the darkest blacks in the field, jews and whites in the office. The only difference is cafe au lait creoles run the whole thing.

Hard agree. This interview was in the context of ppl trying to "cancel" a very young non-black woman rapper named v-nasty for using the term IRL. Of course, there's more complication/nuance, but that's the context.

Any use of it online is borderline stupid. I see no issue of course with Black people using it IRL (it's like Black people's version of "dude" or something), but online, it's hard to know who's for real and who's not, so you might be just having same-old White racists having it their way while pretending being Black people.

I only watched this once but I'm pretty sure I stand by all things expressed in this interview and view it as required watching for non-black people.

Dude, justice for them! I hope they find peace in their lives soon. Otherwise, my feelings towards the organization are mixed because I really wish black anarchist spaces knew how to thrive without being an utter mess or, in this case, abusive hellhole.

He was someone who came to power as a populist who was gonna clean shit up and lower corruption related to the few families who actually run Haiti. Wound up making enemies.

I don't know much about haitian politics, but this guy was a capitalist populist, yes?

Was he a puppet of imperialism too?

But I still have a good (or tactical) opinion on Black Money and all

It depends on how much of that money belongs to select individuals; pooled resources are another thing together and that depends on what the goal of the group is.

Respectability politics

I think this is one reason some people misunderstood Obama presidency. He was the first Black President in the most powerful country in the world and people expected him to act like a Black Revolutionary. He needed to bomb foreign kids to pump the dying economy like the other white boys before him..

But I still have a good (or tactical) opinion on Black Money and all

His mental health issues were long document before his relationship with the K's. I liked his first two albums so i followed his story back then. When his mom died he legit lost himself and has not been capable of handling whatever latent mental health issues he may have been able to previously deal with due to that bond.

Sure, there could be some spin doctoring about particular instances recently, but his issues are long long long before any spin came in. It's a real thing.

Like I said before, he's ridiculous now due to things that have nothing to do with his mental health...but I don't think poo-pooing mental health or "White" Black men critique is valid or necessary when ther's so much above the belt criticism to make.

Respectability politics always got on my nerves.

The worst part is when my family members start adopting similar positions.

You should get your lenses checked, then. He's a Black (very much so) multi millionaire with mental health struggles and particularly offputting politics that contradicted his earlier politics once he got some real money.

This article made me think about my brushes with the old guard black intelligentsia in the south. I was working in agriculture and spent a bit of time at conferences at Tuskegee and other similar institutions. The contrast between the farmers (mostly former sharecroppers) and the top organizers (black academics working with USDA) was stark. Three piece suits, well kept beards and spectacles vs dirty coveralls and muddy boots. The common ground seemed to be Baptist Christianity and a strong sense of knowing and maintaining ones role in the whole charade. Bizarre.