Free Black Thought
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Honoring black viewpoint diversity for the sake of our democracy; 501(c)3
FBT offers: The FBT podcast: freeblackthought.substack.com/podcast The Journal of Free Black Thought: freeblackthought.substack.com The Compendium of Free Black Thought, a topically arranged bibliography of heterodox black writers: bit.ly/36FTtDQ Webpage: freeblackthought.com
“The Woke vs. The Proud?": How Racial Attitudes are Reshaping American Patriotism open.substack.com/pub/themissing…
Pure, uncut Afropessimism: "an anonymous collective of writers who desire an end to this world and the beginning of a new one." Afropessimism holds that the entire world, from Asia to the Americas, represents an anti-black conspiracy that can only be destroyed, not reformed.
The last line on the back of the book.
The Conservative Brotherhood open.substack.com/pub/humanracem… Answers the question what was it like to be a black American who didn't vote for Obama #Obama #GOP #BlackTwitter
The Obamas need to do the same with everyone else.
Candace Owens sued by French President Emanuel Macron, his wife for claiming Brigitte Macron was born a man who groomed her allegedly gay husband trib.al/Q4HCzVt
This is real life – not the vitriol you see on this app. Don't let those influencers trick you!
Woman says her boss offered to walk her down the aisle after he found out she grew up without a father and her mother had passed 👏🏽💯
The future of the Democratic Party, it seems, is full-blown socialism. I think we’re really seeing the generational consequences of the end of the Cold War. GenZers and younger are unaware of how socialism works (or, rather, didn’t work).
BREAKING: Socialist Muslim Omar Fateh officially wins Minneapolis Democratic Party endorsement for mayor.
A perfect response that actually highlights something important that Marx highlighted but that many who do vague waving at Marx miss: There are some senses in which capitalism is worse than what preceded it (e.g. workers are more alienated from the products of their labor). But…
What do you think people living under feudalism thought of Mondays?
There’s no “dark cloud” around the show. Stop trying to be politically correct.
“The Cosby Show” understandably has a dark cloud around it now, but Malcolm Jamal Warner as Theo is one of the most important/iconic portrayals of a young Black man on TV. From his struggles with dyslexia to becoming an educator, Theo was so important in the 80s/90s.
A man of deep goodness, warmth, talent, and charm. He challenged himself in music, art, cinema, spoken word and writing. We did Shakespeare together, crime drama and played dear friends on TV at one point. Art imitating life. Forever youthful, he had a huge capacity for joy but…
Not going to share the original post because I hate 'RETVRN TO FAKE SHIT FOR RACIST REASONS' slop but man I know Gone with the Wind is a long movie but also one of the major points of the film is that the Confederacy was not built to last and really only advantaged like 5% of…
"If a white guy calls me the N-word in traffic during my morning commute, I’m not shaken by it at all. I’m heading to a university to give a lecture on civil discourse; he’s probably going somewhere to day drink. I win! However, I know people who would organize a ten-block…
Framing the Culture War "I see the world through what Kenneth Burke calls the 'comic frame' [which] interprets failings as ignorance, not evil, and emphasizes correction over punishment. It allows reform without spiraling into weapons-grade outrage." mutualpersuasion.substack.com/p/framing-the-…
If anyone had a right to hate America, it was Frederick Douglass. But as his famous #July4th speech makes clear, Douglass loved America—its principles and its promise. He criticized it not out of hatred, but hope. A hope we should all have. news.fairforall.org/p/frederick-do…
I love America, and every fool within it (of which I am no doubt one much of the time). We are a flawed people, but I would argue that we are indeed a people, and will generally remember that we share a bond in this big beautiful country one day. Happy Independence Day.
Democratic voters in New York City have shifted from pro-Israel to pro-Palestine in the last 8 years, and those voters chose Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral primary race — but they were overwhelmingly White middle-class. Black working-classg voters rejected Mamdani and chose Andrew…