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From what I read, and forgive me if I am wrong, Sister Souljah may not have been an explicit communist as someone like Angela Davis, but I came across this video today and found she was very on point. Solidarity to all of my black comrades. <3

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[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She's 100% on point; and it's killing me how that Steve Carrell-looking white-hair peckerwood kept trying to yell over her to sideline her points. "Where is the white outcry...? Who are these 'white good people?' I want to see them. I want to meet them." I feel like I've been quoting her without having seen this debate for the past ten years.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like Ture said about Marx: when you look at the world honestly, you can only come to certain conclusions; you don't need to be told what they are and once you've seen them you cannot be persuaded to think otherwise. When you hear that someone else has discovered the same thing it resonates.

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh wow, that's an incredible quote. It concisely summarizes a point I have been trying to process in my head. That there are some things that explain everything and you don't have to hamfistedly jam in an ideology.. everything just fits.

[–] davi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I've been quoting her without having seen this debate for the past ten years.

we all have and will continue to do so in perpetuity; history repeating itself is a constant.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I always used to follow the aphorism that history doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme-- just a constant repeat is a depressing prospect; and I already got depression