We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with socialism, but we’re going to fight it with black capitalism.
Listening to Killer Mike on RTJ 1-4 : :ancom: :fred-hampton::ancom::chairman-meow: :anarcho-sickle:
(Seriously, they are genuinely good albums)
Seeing Killer Mike & EL-P along with other titans of the hip-hop in the X-Men gala comics: :dean-smile:
Listening to Killer Mike talking about “empowering” black folk by recreating the same systems that hurt us but this time it has black faces on at the top. A very common hustle that I have seen my entire life from every grimy black entrepreneur trying to make a buck off and feel good about it. An utter betrayal of the cultural promise of hip-hop : 💢 😡 💢
The whole hustle with black owned businesses is bullshit, unless the black owners of the business are the workers.
Yup!
I’m also pretty tired of being called a hater/uncle tom/tryna sound white or whatever, but “black-owned” isn’t radical unless that ownership is a fundamentally different form of ownership.
I hate how libs have co-opted blackness into a consumer choice and/or marketing brand. I hate how this aspirational capitalism is somehow empowering for black folks, it’s not. It never has been. It never will be.
Sure get your money right, that’s fine, but never ever think you can capitalism the people to prosperity and equality. If anything capitalism demands black folk remain an underclass. I wish there were a more prominent discussion about capitalism direct negative impact on black folks. I suppose it’s easier because race is a buffer to class which a buffer to capital in the US, it sucks.
It’s just dreadful to know that black folks are meant to want this nonsense. I want my peoples to be free and equal, to live Dr. King’s dream in its fullness, but capital will never bring us to the mountaintop.
very well put, reminds me of this quote
Let’s travel back to Marx’s Grundrisse:
It is not individuals who are set free by free competition; it is, rather, capital which is set free.
