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The Dig: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and Socialism

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🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Putting “black faces in high places,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor argues, has not only failed to benefit the working class and poor black majority — it has actually harmed them by pushing an individualistic, meritocratic narrative that blames poor black people’s condition on their own personal failings. Taylor is a professor of American-American studies at Princeton and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, from Haymarket Books. She is a regular contributor to Jacobin and contributed a chapter called "What about racism? Don't socialists only care about class?" to The ABCs of Socialism.

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Identity by Tom K. Wong. Out podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

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from Providence, Rhode Island. We've now had a black president and for two terms.

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Black mayors had one office in big cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, D.C.

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Atlanta, San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia years earlier.

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There are Black CEOs and top-tier Black pundits.

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A Black man on the Supreme Court has long been

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