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I was having a contentious conversation about race last night and this conversation between Karen Hunter and @briebriejoy kept flashing in my head. The entire anti-racism framework leverages the suffering of the most unfortunate in the Black community to benefit the upper tier 1/
My two questions to my friend were: what do you think the urgent problem that we& #39;re trying to fix is and what is the proposed solution. The problem was always articulated as the suffering that is experienced, almost exclusively, by the poorest of Black Americans. 2/
The solutions: awareness, wokeness, privilege checking, diversity hiring, etc... were, almost exclusively, ones that directly benefited the material and psychic needs of upper class Black Americans. That gap was waved away with some fairy dust of trickle down social justice. 3/
Hunter is at least honest here. She cares about a "Black agenda" that speaks to her needs. The rub is of course that to justify a "Black agenda" politically that speaks to her upper class needs and aspirations you need to exploit the suffering of the lower class of society. 4/
You conflate that suffering with your PMC agenda, using a thoroughly immaterial construct such as race. Through this little trick, ending the murder of kids like Trayvon Martin is made indistinguishable from the aspiration of a black lawyer wanting to make partner at a firm. 5/
Brihana, instinctively, goes in the right direction. She talks about poverty and healthcare. The truth is Karen doesn& #39;t give a shit about that. The fact that, disproportionately, 8,000+ Black Americans die every year because of under/un-insurance can never be made a concern. 6/
The professional class can& #39;t give a shit about that for three reasons. First they already have health insurance, and the pursuit of health equality is necessarily seen as a relative personal loss. Second, it& #39;s not sensational enough an has no PR benefit for their agenda. 7/
Finally, and most importantly, it& #39;s actionable and has a concrete solution. There are bills in the house and senate that will actually make real change. People in the street can fight and pressure politicians to vote for that. But that& #39;s counterproductive for the PR project. 8/
Coming into direct conflict with the political class and corporations is off the table - they are the benefactors of the professional class. Fighting a phantom that they know they can resurrect at will and use in their petty negotiations with capital is of extreme benefit. 9/
This is the entire Liberal-Left professional class political project. This is just one manifestation of it. It& #39;s all sicko shit. /end https://twitter.com/kboulos79/status/1265694673290461184?s=20">https://twitter.com/kboulos79...
The best part of this video is Brie talking about the worst off and Hunter is just nodding along thinking "hurry up bitch, I don& #39;t care about any of this shit". Hunter then responds to Brie by talking about how demonizing Billionaires is bad because they create jobs 
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