It’s been over half a century since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., organizing for the Poor People’s Campaign, explained how the federal government provided white people with an economic floor upon which to build, shape and nurture institutional white supremacy in the United States.
When King said “we’re coming for our check,” he was very clear that generational wealth was one of the keys to surviving in a nation that prefers free Black labor to free Black people, and that it was time to liberate capital from the tight fists and cold hearts of those descended from the very people […]
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