Episode #12: This Is Not Unprecedented! Black Thought's Lessons for the Present (Fascist) Moment
Update: 2020-10-02
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Wisdom comes from studying history, and radical wisdom requires radical histories of the kinds trump aims to suppress. The more "unprecedented" we think this moment is, the more the tactics used against us have the potential to shock us into silence. (Joe Biden said we've never had a racist president before, which is not only a ridiculous thing to say, but also constitutes the type of erasure of Black and Indigenous history that is often used to gaslight us into the lie that amerikkka is good and fascism is somehow abnormal in the amerikkkas.) Even with all the unique and uniquely terrifying things about this present struggle against fascism, G & O urge folks to check out Agents of Repression by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall and other radical histories that are rich with lessons our Black/Indigenous past offers us right now. These books, articles, and videos offer important insights into how oppressors try to crush the freedom movements oppressed people use to survive the onslaught of white supremacist fascism.
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