“Cultural nationalists” -- including those that call themselves Africologists -- “don’t want to change the world; they want to change how they can move in it,” said activist Kashara White, speaking at an all-day conference on the life and work of Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton, at Temple University, in Philadelphia. “Their Black nationalism is not Huey’s Black nationalism,” said White, who majored in African American Studies. “They want money” and “a positive relationship to capitalism. They will snitch on you” to the white authorities.
At the heart of health disparities is antiblackness, a social code that renders Black people disposable.
Public pressure works. Some local entities are not willing to work with ICE anymore.
Black thought is environmental thought and Black Studies is, at its core, an ecological critique.
Black state lawmakers helped scuttle efforts to legalize marijuana in the Garden State and Black preachers have been huge impediments to legalization.
It is unclear if China could have done anything different as it faced an unknown virus.
