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Hillary: *will never run for office again in life, releases a book* Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/09/clinton-sanders-primary-new-book … Biden: *might actually run for President in the next election, releases a book* Jacobin: *crickets*

and I'm not saying there are 0 neoliberal, anti-leftist, anti-poor black journalists, let alone black public figures. There's a great book about it by a black academic: https://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Hustle-Against-Neoliberal-Politics/dp/0692540792 …

But I AM saying that "any whiff of class-not-race turns us off" is holding up better than "y'all hate leftists." Meanwhile "I know y'all hate neolibs but do you maybe have a sexism problem?" is holding up better than "what? no sexism here!!"

and I'm just blowing off steam and bitching bc I was totally, like, settled in my understanding of social justice that includes addressing poverty until I started listening to socialists more, lol.

BUT I do think like... y'all can back up off my verified black journalist faves. Y'all ain't notice when they all hit that subtle "you know, having billionaires at all is a political choice" note all the time? Or they share Jacobin articles on the sly?

We just know how to code-switch and foment major change from within problematic institutions cause um... hi, black history.

also like at the end of the day, no shade to the DSA cause y'all be doing good work but like... do you understand 99% of the black public figures y'all slam as neoliberal have a MUCH closer experience of and relation to poverty than your average DSAer?

And that's cause like... damn near 50% of us live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty! Even the ones with money! And another 30% probably grew up in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty. And yeah, those are the same ones who write for the root and VSB and whatever else.