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+====IT WILL NOT GET BETTER–Trayvon Martin and Renisha McBride are our generation’s Emmett Till–the promise of the political has never and will never be realized for Black Americans–the American dream and the political is dependent on ever-increasing black suffering==== |
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+Calvin L. Warren 15, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University, Professor of “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope,” The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK |
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+Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and |
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+advances political apostasy as the only “ethical” response to black suffering. |
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+====Placing hope in the political constitutes a cruel optimism that keeps blacks chasing after a political object that only strengthens anti-black systems–they’ll say “WE CAN’T DO NOTHING” but that’s just a link–anti-black systems create a false binary between action and inaction that tricks blacks into continuing to trust the political==== |
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+Calvin L. Warren 15, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University, Professor of “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope,” The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK |
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+The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel |
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+the only “hope” for blackness in an anti- black world. |
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+====The alternative is black nihilist political apostasy that rejects the anti-black political entirely–NO PARTIAL ATHEISM–the perm fails because it’s impossible to support the political structure without participating in the ruse of false transformation and an exploited hope==== |
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+Calvin L. Warren 15, Assistant Professor of American Studies, George Washington University, Professor of “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope,” The New Centennial Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University Press. RFK |
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+Can we reject this racist god and, at the same time, support the |
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+symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice. |