People are really out here parroting white supremacist talking points about “anarchists,” “radicals,” and “outside agitators.” These narratives have been repeatedly regurgitated by the state and the police and many are shamelessly endorsing it. [image: a KKK flyer from the 1930s]

Countless slave revolts were put down and betrayed by people saying radical, rebel slaves were going to get everyone killed or in trouble. Black movements are always infiltrated and disrupted by people sowing discord using manipulative tactics like this too.

False narratives about white leftists getting Black people in trouble are old tricks. If you're Black, you're already in trouble because of white supremacy. Repeating Jim Crow-era KKK police lies about “outside agitators” and ”radicals” manipulating Black people won't save us.

It's unfortunate to see some Black people repeating Jim Crow, KKK talking points about anarchists, radicals, and so on coming from the system itself that's killing us. It's clear a lot of people are misinformed, but some of these people are just protecting their own interests.

Many are awakening to the class issues at play here. Well-off people will undermine movements to protect their own class interests. So, don't be surprised to hear them repeating official police talking points because it makes sense that they would.

A movement against police violence is being co-opted by the president and both sides of the political establishment. The rich, wealthy, and elite hope to help shift focus to radicals in an effort to control justifiable rage using police talking points and some are falling for it.

Black history is filled with violent uprisings, riots, and rebellions that got us where we are today. People either don't know that or they hope to erase it in efforts to quell the anger. Anyone trying to say all Black people must protest one way are misinformed or manipulative.

Learn about Black radicalism and if you don't know what it is, don't speak on it as if you know. You're putting people's lives at risk by doing so. Focus on white supremacy and the oppression that's killing us. https://twitter.com/williamcson/status/1266777884917665795

There are definitely issues with white leftists that need to be addressed and Black people on the left have long been doing this work for ages. However, repeating KKK police messaging IS NOT THE WAY to address them so DO NOT. You are NOT helping. https://twitter.com/williamcson/status/1266821912438726656?s=20

If you need to address something with white people you feel are out of pocket and jeopardizing people, then address that with them. Talk it out. Just do not come over here with that KKK, police “outside agitators” and ”anarchists” here to get good Black people in trouble shit.

If you do not know there are Black people on the left that are communists, anarchists, abolitionists, and you feel the need to erase us by making these into strictly white ideologies you are either misinformed or manipulative. If you are the latter, get out the way and shut up.

Black leaders y'all quote and wearing on t-shirts were prepared to self-defend and be violent when necessary and did so. Many were communists, anarchists, and abolitionists. Accept, understand, and internalize that. They were ”outside agitators,“ and radicals. Don't erase them.

”Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non-violent.” – Lorraine Hansberry