Tag: Toussaint L’Ouverture
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Two Principles of Racial Equity that Outrage Liberals
From left: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end economic and power divides,…
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The Pioneering Critique of the Black Misleadership Class: E. Franklin Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie
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Published 60 years ago, Frazier’s The Black Bourgeoisie (1957) analyzed the social and political behavior of the African American middle class social strata that aspired to purportedly benevolently rule their own community while pursuing their own personal advancement. Frazier saw the Black bourgeoisie as both an evolving middle class in historical materialist terms – that…
