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13413169, Adolph Reed Jr's 1995 "What Are The Drums Saying, Booker?"
Posted by mind_grapes, Mon Nov-09-20 06:52 PM
is an interesting take on proto-woke Black public intellectuals that explicitly criticizing this "wokeness" as insufficiently political and unable to rectify economic disparities for all classes of Black people by instead focusing on the few privileged Blacks able to achieve upward social mobility by "translating what the drums say" for white audiences.
https://libcom.org/files/ReedWhatAreTheDrumsSayingBooker.pdf
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