I'm almost morbidly curious to hear how the settlers will spin this as not being rank, flagrant collaboration with neo-fascists. Not enough to go looking, but... Almost.
Rural. I mean, sticks as shit, the streetlights over the road ended fifty miles from where I was at, all cow country and farms getting paid to not sew shit other than wild grass. Biggest mistake my blood ever made was moving out there, and I had to live with the consequences of it; best choice I ever made was moving to a city above the Mason-Dixon. At least here, the racism isn't as blatant. Still coded; but not as blatant.
Who are the Dixie-flying settler-born supposed to be the natural allies of, again? I won't deny that it's not all of them, but the few that aren't overtly like that are in a state of "show and prove" with me; otherwise, that's a real quick way for me to become a chalk outline 'cause I was too trusting.
I was born there; and lived experience is telling me you might be overestimating them a little.
Same shit, different decade. They'll pretend for long enough for the public to outrage over something else, and nothing is done to truly serve liberation. Just a couple horseshit sinecurial spaces with fancy titles that will inevitably be filled by the same gentrifiers as the old ones within five years. It's not really a surprise anymore, just a disappointed facerub and a sigh.
Idk. I'm no longer convinced any of this can be solved without the entire community uprooting and disassociating from America as we know it in pursuit of our own self-determination; much as a pipe dream as that is. NFAC might've had a lot wrong, but they at least had the need for self-determination 100% spot on.
I think that's where the root of our disagreement's at. From where I sit, the fascism's been started. No hood I ever lived in lived under a 'democracy', that's for fuckin sure.
Not nearly enough. I want every gentrifier, every descendant of slavers, every pig, every neocolonial monster who'd fix their face to say they want to see some underdeveloped third-world nation turned to a glass pit for defying them. You think Cuba had gusanos? You think North Korea had defectors? You ain't seen shit yet from the caucazoid barbarians. This kind of shit is genuinely what they believe. They genuinely believe that their country cannot exist or perpetuate without being the most racist barbarians this side of the Atlantic. They don't deserve this land, nor the prosperity they've enjoyed at the hands, blood, and sweat of everyone else.
Crickets and their brother's cousin's aunt's mother's sister's network engineer twice removed... Who just so happens to get all of his news exclusively from the government propaganda trough(pick a color).
In a more pleasant world, America would've shuttered its surveillance apparatus and downcycled the embryonic military-industrial complex directly after World War 2, rather than being cartoonishly evil and inventing a new term for a 'propaganda war' with aim to snuff out the one system that presented clear opposition to the oligarchic tyranny of capital; then having a couple dozen courses of dessert stomping out every burgeoning society in the Global South looking to free themselves from the yoke. Instead, America wanted to rule the world; and thus, no one has been allowed to disarm.
Not one bit, since everyone who's ever had the gall to try and tell me what I was and wasn't has been white themselves. Y'all literally do not move me anywhere but fuckin contempt anymore, and he's just another relic of the Jim Crow era to me after that. "Strom and I shared a life for 30 years", he said, eulogizing a goddamn klansman, and you want to justify him quantifying someone's Blackness by whether or not they were "for him", fuck outta here you absolute plantation boss.
You and everyone who thinks like you; who think that they can quantify the essential identities of the colonized, and demand its energy without recompense or exchange, would've been measuring out the ropes a hundred years ago.
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I'm almost morbidly curious to hear how the settlers will spin this as not being rank, flagrant collaboration with neo-fascists. Not enough to go looking, but... Almost.