you do realize you can do both right?The problem is that you are still looking for a white savior. You wanna make an organization to beg the government to give you reparations.
What Tariq is advocating is for us to do for self and withdrawing from the political system if it is not gonna do anything for us.
That’s the part y’all keep omitting the part where he says we need to link up and start building businesses and only buying from each other.
He’s essentially combining Malcolm X‘a economic policy with Neely Fuller/Claud Anderson ethnic policy and Darity’s reparations assessments.
That’s why being on code is so important because it goes deeper than reparations. It’s about going the extra mile to prioritize a FBA before everyone else even if it inconveniences you at times.
You do realize if you stop stanning tariq for a hot second. you would realize you could do both. do for self and go asking for your money. you should do both.
its like the idiots that say "I want reparations but not cash payments." Dummy, you need cash payments as well. you need and deserve all of it.
and thats exactly what claude anderson is advocating for. he's doing both.