Lily (she/her)30’s, trans, im autistic & I post about cartoon lesbians and also class struggle and anti-imperialism. Blog is nsfw and may not be suitable for minors for a variety of reasons.
El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Speaks on Celebrities and Separation at UC Berkeley (1963)
"I just told you a little while ago these 'leaders' that they called leaders. this
included (laughs) Lena Horne, this included Dick Gregory and this included comedians, comics, trumpet players, baseball players. Show me in the white community where a comedian is a 'white leader.' Show me in the white community where a singer is a 'white leader. Or a dancer or a trumpet player is a 'white leader', these aren't leaders. These are puppets and clowns that have been set up over the white community and- over the Black community by the white community and have been made celebrities and usually say exactly what they know that the white man wants to hear."
people always bring up trotsky sending a silly letter but they never talk about how his son saw him as a bourgeois pretender and left the family to join a circus, which seems a bigger indictment of him both as a father and a revolutionary