@instituteofartandideas: “The system can no more provide freedom for black people than a chicken can lay a duck egg,” said Malcolm X. While differences between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are often simplified into violence vs non-violence, Black Studies Professor Kehinde Andrews argues that their main differences stemmed from the ways in which they understood society. King thought that society needed to be reformed; Malcolm X thought it needed to be broken apart and reconstructed entirely.
I appreciate the distinction between the two. But why the elision of US, Britain and the West. Blackness isn’t even a shared concept across these geographies. American thinkers are interesting but presenting them as near or close examples also loses major distinctions.
2026-09-10 15:05:32
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pdkxo :
Great post. But what is “the system”? I mean we need specifics here not just general us and them. Is it all white people, at all times past and present? Coz like not all why people are living the good life the system is supposed to be giving them. There is more going on. We need more granularity.
2026-09-12 05:57:51
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