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Hella Black Podcast

EP 117: Black Radical Month

Hella Black Podcast

Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham

Society & Culture

5939 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On this episode of Hella Black we talk about why it's important to honor the Black Radical Tradition this month and every month. Tap in.

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Black Radical Month?

0:01.0

I happy, happy Black History Month. Happy African Liberation Month, you feel me, this is a month that's,

0:11.6

especially with Black History Month,

0:13.0

it has radical origins, but it's been in many ways

0:18.0

co-opted by the liberal, establishment to celebrate essentially

0:30.0

in many ways the quoteunquote African Americans that they think is docile you know what I'm

0:37.4

saying like even if they weren't docile even if they were they go turn them into this

0:42.2

whole co-optation of who the

0:43.8

person was you feel me to where you have the FBI saying happy black

0:48.2

history month you feel me the CIA saying oh happy black history month you have all

0:52.3

these fascist institutions

0:54.9

trying to act as if you know they celebrate us. I mean it's all the play for integration right?

0:59.6

If it's representation is giving all that integration and containment all as a means to

1:06.6

validate the settler colonial state right like okay y'all are a part of this now

1:11.9

which means it is okay right y'all are a part of this now, which means it is okay, right?

1:14.0

Y'all helped build it by force.

1:18.0

Y'all help to build it, now you are here making it great.

1:22.0

We call you American, we might put African in front of it, but you know, you're part of us.

1:27.8

You're part of this so-called gray nation.

1:30.1

But that's what the state does, right, as a policy of containment,

1:33.4

they take something that has the potential, or that take something that was

1:35.9

started as revolutionary and they warp it to make it valuable in a method of the state and that's how you get Black History Month where the

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