I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You and your politics are not “progressive” if you’re unwilling to have sustained, uncomfortable conversations about race, this country’s racist legacy, and your own internalized racism.
Without that reckoning, nothing you say or propose is meaningfully different from the harm we’re all already living through.
If you think “woke” is a liability to your progressive agenda, Black folx hear you loud and clear.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You and your politics are not “progressive” if you’re unwilling to have sustained, uncomfortable conversations about race, this country’s racist legacy, and your own internalized racism.
Without that reckoning, nothing you say or propose is meaningfully different from the harm we’re all already living through.
If you think “woke” is a liability to your progressive agenda, Black folx hear you loud and clear.
You cannot chant “listen to Black women” while continuing to platform white men.
Sanders. Newsom. Talarico. Carville. And others like them.
They cannot lead us to a supremacy-, coercion-, discrimination-, and exploitation-free world because they have never had to navigate a world where systems, institutions, and policies were not built to benefit them.
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You cannot chant “listen to Black women” while continuing to platform white men.
Sanders. Newsom. Talarico. Carville. And others like them.
They cannot lead us to a supremacy-, coercion-, discrimination-, and exploitation-free world because they have never had to navigate a world where systems, institutions, and policies were not built to benefit them.
This isn’t about whether they are “good men,” because “good” is subjective and words like “good,” “fair,” and “civility” are often weaponized to excuse harmful decisions and behavior. It’s about the limits of their lived experience and how that shapes what they can see, what they can name, and what they are willing to disrupt.
If your version of “progressive” politics does not center the needs, leadership,
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This isn’t about whether they are “good men,” because “good” is subjective and words like “good,” “fair,” and “civility” are often weaponized to excuse harmful decisions and behavior. It’s about the limits of their lived experience and how that shapes what they can see, what they can name, and what they are willing to disrupt.
If your version of “progressive” politics does not center the needs, leadership,
and wisdom of the very Black women who have held these coalitions together for generations, often while fending off the harm of self-proclaimed white “allies” who claim expertise where none exists, then you are not building anything new.
You are repackaging the same status quo with softer language.
And you will be complicit in what happens next.
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You and your politics are not “progressive” if you’re unwilling to have sustained, uncomfortable conversations about race, this country’s racist legacy, and your own internalized racism.
Without that reckoning, nothing you say or propose is meaningfully different from the harm we’re all already living through.
If you think “woke” is a liability to your progressive agenda, Black folx hear you loud and clear.
@KimCrayton1 Native folks as well. We can’t be progressive and whole until every single human being is respected and is recognized inherently as worthy of love, warmth, and all life has to offer. Not one person left outside in the cold!
Thank you for posting what you do.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
You and your politics are not “progressive” if you’re unwilling to have sustained, uncomfortable conversations about race, this country’s racist legacy, and your own internalized racism.
Without that reckoning, nothing you say or propose is meaningfully different from the harm we’re all already living through.
If you think “woke” is a liability to your progressive agenda, Black folx hear you loud and clear.
@KimCrayton1 Preach it, Sister!
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