BLM National Leadership Focused on Money and Careers
Breya Johnson, co-chair of Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) in Washington, DC, said her organization enjoys a âworking relationshipâ with the local Black Lives Matter chapter, but views BLMâs national leadership as âmore about career interestsâ and raising money âthan it is about Black liberation.â BYP100 sees mutual aid as crucial during the Covid-19-induced economic crisis, âbecause the government failed us.â âHow we keep us safe is critical,â said Johnson, a masters student at George Washington University.
Black Is Back Coalition: âBlack Power Mattersâ
âThe struggle has to be more than simply a declaration of our significance as human beings, as in the term âBlack Lives Matter,ââ said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Thatâs why, for the 12th consecutive year, the Coalition last week marched on the White House under the banners of âBlack Power Matters,â âDown With Colonialism,â and âBlack Community Control of the Police.â Said Yeshitela: âThe masses of people need and want leadership.â
The Mulatta in White Brazilian and US Imaginations
âThe mixed Black figure, the mulattaâ is âa central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whitenessâ in both Brazil and the United States, said Jasmine Mitchell, professor of American Studies and Media and Communication at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Brazilian media popularize âideologies of racial mixing with the hope that the nation will become less Black,â said Mitchell, author of the book, âImagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media.â
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