I don't think the black community has an obsession with supporting Democrats, I think they have a real and physical need to keep their community (relatively) safe. The black community is facing real physical consequences from the Trump administration that white people don't. Speaking as a white person, it's easy to be a white leftist when you personally don't have any skin in the game. It's easy to have good geopolitical and foreign policy takes when you aren't worried about where the next meal for your children comes from.

Leftists need to build up grassroots local victories, with community outreach and engagement. There's definitely lots of it happening already, lots more progress needs to be made to create real grounded solidarity between marginalized groups.

Big online content creators should always be taken with some salt.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

She's admitted plenty of times that black liberalism is a self-defense mechanism and that their support for democrats is a matter of raw survival. As a black leftist, it's hard to find a white online creator that has given more coverage to 101-level black leftist history and philosophy. And she regularly points people to actual black leftists who speak o the topics she covers because she knows that her cracker-ass is half the scholar of black history that many black creators are.

She covers that shit because some white people won't hear shit if a white person isn't the one telling them.