It’s trendy among certain activist cultures to dismiss (black) liberalism, but then you gotta listen to, e.g., “Black Man” or “Saturn” by Stevie Wonder and you hear how potent black liberalism is as an intellectual tradition and spiritual practice.
It’s real easy in the post-Obama era to decry black liberalism, to basically hold up Obama and shout “this is your king?” like Killmonger. But the tradition Obama inherited as a lot wider, deeper, and more powerful than JUST Obama himself.
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Building a compelling ideological alternative to that, and planting it like seeds all over the country, and letting it grow into a set of beliefs and cultural practices is a long and difficult work and I think too many disappointed-by-Obama radicals underestimate that.
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