If you think that Afrofuturism in funk is just for fun, Nona Hendryx explains the need for Afrofuturism so powerfully here in about 15 seconds, you should prepare yourself. See also the preceding section in the video on Afrofuturism in funk.
A History of Funk Music and Black Liberation of the 1970s | Full Documentary | Independent Lens
https://youtu.be/QrgV35cBHVs&t=3250
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Because no matter what abusers take from their victims, they don't want to take the blame. And one of
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I'm all for it, and have been for years. @willbunch has called for this in multiple columns, and yet it got nowhere.
Let's hope this time it takes hold.
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This is why I love historians! They can show you who’s screwing you, how, and how long they’ve been getting away with it. The why? Guess we have to figure that out. Complete moral bankruptcy? #history #poverty #oligarchy #greed #climatechange
In 1883, as the Republican Party moved into full-throated support for the industrialists who were concentrating the nation’s wealth into their own hands while factory workers stayed above the poverty line only by working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, Yale sociologist William Graham Sumner responded to those worried about the extremes of wealth and poverty in the country with his book
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