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 āworking relationshipā with the local Black Lives Matter chapter, but views BLMās national leadership as āmore about career interestsā and raising money āthan it is about Black liberation.ā BYP100 sees mutual aid as crucial during the Covid-19-induced economic crisis, ābecause the government failed us.ā āHow we keep us safe is critical,ā said Johnson, a masters student at George Washington University.
Black Is Back Coalition: āBlack Power Mattersā
āThe struggle has to be more than simply a declaration of our significance as human beings, as in the term āBlack Lives Matter,āā said Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations. Thatās why, for the 12th consecutive year, the Coalition last week marched on the White House under the banners of āBlack Power Matters,ā āDown With Colonialism,ā and āBlack Community Control of the Police.ā Said Yeshitela: āThe masses of people need and want leadership.ā
The Mulatta in White Brazilian and US Imaginations
āThe mixed Black figure, the mulattaā is āa central focus of containing and managing Blackness and upholding whitenessā 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 āideologies of racial mixing with the hope that the nation will become less Black,ā said Mitchell, author of the book, āImagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media.ā
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