Maybe the black freedom movement needs to not be inclusive.
The philosophy's primary tool is so powerful, that if it loses that tool, the movement might disappear. When it's explained that Africans were enslaved and relocated, to be beaten and abused, and over time gradually merged into the political power structure they wanted nothing to do with -- that's easy to understand.
I also want freedom from the political power that forces me against my will. But I don't have that gut-punch story of my people that makes it so easy to understand. I'm even viewed as part of that dominating political power because of how I was born.
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