some reading suggestions

[amw]

Although i have been slowly working my way out of this latest funk, i have only managed to drag myself out of the house twice in the past week, and only to fetch groceries. My life has completely reverted to lockdown state, which feels apropos, given the recent spike in corona cases

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[olamina]

I went back and read it. The thing it reminded me of was an interview I heard a few years back with some IWW anarchists talking about Black Lives Matter protests and how when the state did decide to engage they picked certain sort of "legible" blacks to negotiate with as opposed to the scruffy, poor punk kids. She said something, "It's interesting to observe which ones they pick." I went through this in college, I was picked by this guy Van Jones (who is now a famous and celebrated CNN pundit) to speak at a protest about a shooting that had happened in a poor part of San Francisco that I'd never been to. Along the protest route I struck up a conversation with a man who'd live there all his life. When the time came to give my canned speech, I gave the mic to the local guy. Van went ballistic

[amw]

Wow, the politics of activism! Thanks for sharing your experience

[dadi]

Wow there are some great lings there! Thank you so much!

[olamina]

As an anarchist type, I don't think we can rely on hoping we're giving our power away to people who are nice and virtuous. Taking other people's power is not a good or virtuous act. The power must be with the people. Politician should not be a job. No more kings and courtesans in castles. If this crisis has taught us anything, it's that we can't sit around hoping millionaires and billionaires will come and save us. We save us

[olamina]

Understood...but it's an interesting thing that at least in the case of black conservatives it's ALL GUYS. I don't know who it is they think they are being edged out by. There is no Black Leadership to speak of. I think the main camp is just Democrat centrists. I feel like they can talk to whoever they like....just avoid Twitter. But Twitter isn't the real world anyway.

[amw]

"Avoid Twitter" - words to live by. I have peeked in to several accounts over there in the past few weeks, and it seems it's only served to make me more annoyed than i was before.