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Love my Black Job—
Black Student Union Job!
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Shangri-La—untaxed, socially-distanced champagne-
caviar, Cayman Island, yacht crowds who
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cause Black magic mascots, props, sops—
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” —Karl Marx
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“An alternative league would be the antithesis of the NFL and also take its cue from ‘Bingo Long’s Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings.’”
“Marx blamed the rulers of colonialism and those that exploited Irish workers for lower wages when they got to England, and not the exploited Irish worker.”
“The Panthers spoke out about the ravages of capitalism and aligned themselves with anti-imperialist and anti-colonial forces from Vietnam to South Africa to Palestine.”
“Hundreds of activists in the 1970s left behind families, friends, jobs, and their identities in order to disappear into the underground.”
