Again, capitalism is evil. But if money gives black folks a socially valued framework to refute white racists...https://twitter.com/cjmccollum/status/912480582507970560 …
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In some ways it's so easy to relate anti-racism to anti-capitalism, because so many black folks are poor.
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But on the other hand, it's so hard, because blackness in America for most of our history has been in and of itself a class marker.
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And so much of the horror of racism is its very inescapability, the extent to which money does not alter the class position of the "nigger"
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And if black wealth affords one the power to shake off white racists, even if only rhetorically... can you be surprised if blk ppl love it?
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