Our racial justice movement must be savvy and go beyond the superficial. It may be hard to take ourselves serious in the U.S. but in other places there are real liberation struggles going on. Beyonce’s release of “Formation” and her Super Bowl performance is being touted by many as a real political statement. (And then there was SNL’s “The Day Beyonce’ Turned Black.”) The high-rollin’ diva is being asked to support the Palestinian cause and not perform in Israel. Will Palestinian Lives Matter?
Maximizing the Power That We Have
The U.S. working class has been conditioned over the years to believe it has no individual power, and therefore it can never have collective power. This false narrative has had a negative impact on our approach to resistance.
