The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia http://libgen.li/item/index.php?md5=28C51308F215E77FA12EEA0E3A25F329
…But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and “recaptured” Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world’s second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.
broke: read Settlers
woke: read Settlers but replace America with Africa and replace “white” with “black”, and replace “black” with “indigenous black”
As ever, the internet is about inventing a guy and getting mad at that guy.
There’s people putting up Black Hammer flyers in the city I work in, in one of the whitest states in the country. A few days ago, a heavily armed black militant group got arrested crossing into Massachusetts. Last year this website was fawning over NBPP members who brought rifles to a protest (until they realized they were the New Black Panther Party). It’s not like these groups don’t exist among the radical elements of the black community.
Edit: also I’m not mad at them, black nationalism poses an interesting opportunity and unique challenges to the communist movement.
