Afro-pessimism seems like the great intellectual taboo in American culture. It's not for me to affirm or deny, but it certainly is plausible based on, I dunno, 500 years of history. Yet people across the political spectrum refuse to acknowledge it as a possibility.
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I’m not an expert, but Afropessimism goes beyond saying there’s a lot of racism in the USA, no?
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It says anti-Blackness is different from and much worse than every other form of prejudice and is intrinsic to Western society
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It's a Gramscian morbid symptom really. Appropriate to the present though not (I would hope) the future.
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