• thetablesareorange@lemmygrad.ml
          13·
          2 years ago

          you’re aware white people call black people communists just for existing in America, right? thats not a 4 letter word in the black community like it is for white americans.

              • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
                8·
                2 years ago

                uh

                "I see no changes, wake up in the morning and I ask myself Is life worth livin’? Should I blast myself? I’m tired of bein’ poor and, even worse, I’m black My stomach hurts so I’m lookin’ for a purse to snatch Cops give a damn about a negro Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he’s a hero Give the crack to the kids, who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare First ship 'em dope and let 'em deal to brothers Give 'em guns, step back, watch 'em kill each other “It’s time to fight back, " that’s what Huey said Two shots in the dark, now Huey’s dead”

                • thetablesareorange@lemmygrad.ml
                  110·
                  2 years ago

                  again the black panthers were not outright communists… anything about capitalism, references to marx, soviet russia, Mao? anything like that? just the words bourgeoisie or proletariat even once?

                  • Seanchaí (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
                    11·
                    2 years ago

                    The Black Panthers weren’t outright communists? have you even read Huey Newton, the person being specifically referenced in this line? He was an avowed Marxist, he crafted the theory of intercommunalism, he advocated for sending Panthers to fucking Vietnam to fight on behalf of the communists because he believed that the communist struggle was a world struggle.

                    Please do more reading about Black Liberation movements, and the Panthers in specific. They were, in fact, a third world solidarity and Black Power movement based on socialism and their theory came from avowed Marxist leaders.

                    Edit: Tupac, by the way, was the head of the New African Panthers, and if it bothers you so much that he never said the word “communism” in his music, you should read his poetry, which is powerfully radical. Or perhaps listen to his interviews about Black Liberation, the Panthers, his mom (who you seem to think he never took any lessons from) or any of his radical speeches.

                  • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
                    7·
                    2 years ago

                    do you define communists by their shared, arcane-to-the-average-person vernacular or the shit they actually say lol. i also am not getting the shade towards the black panthers. even if many members saw it more as a black liberation movement than an explicitly communist one, the leadership were all communists! Huey was a communist!