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What can we glean from this moment about the tenuous place of Black anger in the public imagination? Will the Black electorate be defined by anger or exhaustion come November? Drawing on The Anger Gap, my OpEd in NYT:
nytimes.com/2020/06/06/opini…
MY FIRST CORE KNICKS MEMORY IS THE CHARLES SMITH GAME. NEAR MISSES. HEARTBREAKS. LOLKNICKS ERA. I HELD ONTO TO MY FANDOM OF THIS TEAM THEOUGH THE MUD BECAUSE THE BONDS WITH FAMILY THAT ARE NO LONGER WITH ME WERE FORGED THRU ROOTING FOR THIS TEAM. THIS MEANS SOMETHING TO ME.
Not saying the CR movement failed. I'm saying it's inaccurate to attribute its success to how participants presented themselves. The movement succeeded despite its poor real-time perception by most everyday people & elites alike. Respectability wasn't the key to its success.
I know that King was assassinated. That doesn’t mean that the Civil Rights Movement failed. They passed laws that restored the right to vote for millions of African Americans who had been denied it for literally centuries. It was an objective success and there is now a great giant granite statue to MLK Jr in the middle of DC where he is venerated as one of the greatest American heroes.
Funny how the Civil Rights movement’s presentation of itself didn’t stop King from being assassinated or being targeted by a years-long FBI campaign, or prevent the majority of Americans from viewing the movement as being more hurtful than helpful to its cause.
Thibs deserves a ton of praise. But the claim that he maximized this roster is such a terrible take that I came back to this hell site just to say please, stick to politics.
That's a lot of words just to say "we caved and we're cooked"
Mahmoud Khalil stirring up too much empathy & activism they about to send him to the negative zone with Luigi
