Professor Paradox
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the 8th son :
racism will not end until capitalism ends. it is the driving Factor behind it.
2026-07-17 23:01:42
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Ty Cameron :
I had a professor once ask the class “why don’t you see strong black leaders like MLK or Malcolm X” I responded because you killed and imprisoned all of them… and he still didn’t get it…
2026-07-17 14:47:57
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LesserGoldfinch :
You are 100% correct in your analysis, and it is extremely well presented. I think that the “progress” that Americans seem to bestow upon themselves, at least within the realm of racial politics, is a purely ideological projection based in the shared understanding of the mythological “founding principles”. It goes like this: we fought a war to abolish slavery, and slavery was abolished. Then, even though Jim Crow and segregation were bad, at least it wasn’t slavery. Then the Civil Rights Movement happened, and Jim Crow and segregation were outlawed. Then, even though the War on Drugs and War on Crime era were bad, at least it wasn’t Jim Crow. And so on. The key thing that everyone misses (that you hit very well) is that this framing is completely devoid of a *material* and economic understanding of these political events. They believe that just because segregation was deemed unconstitutional, segregation vanished overnight. And we never had to worry about it again. Along those lines, most Americans view these historic events as representing clean ruptures in political/economic/cultural landscapes. “After the civil war, slavery was dead forever. After the CRM, segregation was completely taken care of.” I think the basis is that Americans have a profoundly idealistic (ie philosophical Idealism) understanding of their history, economy, and political structures. They do not possess a material understanding of the process of historical development, so they will never see the endless cycles that you point out. They will never acknowledge that the system of slavery simply morphed and contorted and hid itself in other institutions, and under other names. They fail to see the concrete linkages in the banks, the corporations, the infrastructure, the capital flows, the militarism, the expansion and extraction, and the social relations. For the average USian, the “progress” they see is: well, we abolished slavery; then we abolished Jim Crow; we gave women the right to vote; SCOTUS handed down Roe v Wade. See? We’re always making “progress”
2026-07-17 04:38:44
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Quayyy :
This is because the confederacy never lost
2026-07-17 09:40:47
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poundtownbrown :
Maybe the “progress” is them getting better at oppression
2026-07-17 13:33:17
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Juanpa :
If only everyone was this educated
2026-07-17 04:03:56
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NotTheOneNorTwo :
Maybe they’ll hear it from you.
2026-07-17 07:04:14
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margi :
look what happened to black panthers and 2nd amendment, when it suits their purpose they are quite willing to rewrite the rules
2026-07-17 04:37:05
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crazey Eddy :
A majority white population will occasionally SHAME each other for racism, expecting a majority white population to PUNISH each other for racism is foolish, wishful thinking and has society stuck in an endless loop of "one day they will"..
2026-07-17 18:00:33
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AlessandRa :
Thank You - I feel like a psychopath trying to explain this to other people and they argue about advancement, equality, and the absence of color. A White Man told me recently I should discuss it without race because it turns White people off and poverty is effecting everyone. 😩
2026-07-17 05:13:54
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The Meg of Megs :
America has been repeating Reconstruction over & over again it’s insane
2026-07-17 06:43:44
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Lex Sparks :
Can’t name a black activist with mentioning the FBI
2026-07-17 06:03:46
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ViciousVibrato :
People’s minds would be blown if they knew that the suffragette movement rose out of white women being mad the Black men got a right to vote before them and they excluded Black women in their fight for voting rights. They made Ida B. Wells and other Black suffragettes walk at the back of the women’s march. F*UCK SUSAN B. ANTHONY AND ELIZABETH CADY STANTON!!! And ANOTHER THING…everybody hated pew pew control until the Black Panthers started exercising their 2nd Amendment rights and openly carrying their 🔫s to defend themselves against violent racism and extremism. Then all the sudden the NRA and white politicians and white nationalists lobbied for the Mulford Act. Mind you, the Black Panther free breakfast and lunch initiatives for kids are why public schools started free lunch programs…to take the credit from Black people and make themselves the white saviors. But oooooh yeah the BP were sooooo scary and violent. The disarming of the Black Panthers really crippled modern civil rights progressions in my opinion. And don’t even get me started on the US govt bombing a whole neighborhood of Black citizens ON US SOIL!!! It’s so exhausting to be Black in this country. Double consciousness is tiring but it’s how we have managed to survive centuries of torture. But I’m tired of just surviving and living in a world that white people get to be blissfully ignorant about while forcing Black people to know the history of their mediocre yt world and live in it by default. Not just surviving, but constant STRUGGLING to survive. My grandmother picked cotton for christs sake. She’s 97 and still alive and this country is regressing back to the Jim Crow world she was born into almost a century ago. She was already a mother of four before she even got the right to vote. Her youngest child, my 63 year old mother, wasn’t even born with guaranteed full voting rights. I could go on for hours about it all…
2026-07-28 05:38:02
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Dr. Kelly Clark :
to the point that they are literally willing to tank the ENTIRE American democratic experiment over this need for racial heirarchy.
2026-07-17 22:14:02
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Missy E :
Just look at the resurgenece of lynchings over the past 10 years post Obama. Patterns repeating themselves.
2026-07-17 07:35:29
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BigToe :
Racism is alive and thriving in Amerikkka...
2026-07-17 10:09:28
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Sunnymod :
you're not a pessimist, you're a realist based on centuries of history
2026-07-17 18:12:22
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Convos With Corryn :
Jim Crow was a coordinated overthrow of the reconstruction period
2026-07-27 02:33:24
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AlessandRa :
WE HAVE NOT MADE ANY GOOD FAITH EFFORT 💯💯💯
2026-07-17 05:14:46
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peachdream0 :
You make a great point, I always viewed the 50s/60’s as a great period of progress for African Americans, and the decades that followed to be the punishment for that progress (war on crime, war on drugs, mass incarceration) but it has been a repetitive cycle since reconstruction . While the civil rights movement did bring new legislation most of our leaders were murdered before “phase 2” ex. MLK fighting for affordable housing in Chicago/addressing redlining. 60 years later we are still fighting these things today
2026-07-17 07:25:27
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Mike Blaze Knight :
The progress was the propaganda they fed us along the way.
2026-07-18 02:36:21
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Angie :
Exactly. When the Panthers were in the nieghborhoods they labeled them criminals and were ending them any way they could
2026-07-17 06:22:24
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FullMetal :
I think about popular music to explain Civil Rights progress. . Whenever “R&B, or whatever style of music we create” becomes popular. Immediately it is replaced by nationalistic, “white poverty centric” music. It’s reactionary, and designed to maintain the status quo.
2026-07-17 16:48:04
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Dewitt Carter165 :
Instead of progress, I see propaganda!
2026-07-17 15:54:25
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