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Oooh, Angela Davis's mother emerged from this community of 'red-diapered' babies! (author's phrasing).

It is a class war after all, as Kelley details allll over this book how affluent Black people were not working in favor of working class Black people and tried to stop them from getting the right to vote 🙃 just like the bloody suffragettes only cared about their class and their 'race' getting the vote.

Whenever someone hates the left, I wanna be like: are you enjoying the weekend? Are you enjoying only having to work 8 hours per day? Are you enjoying whatever rights you have? Do you think they sprung fully formed from legislator skulls?? Or did people protest and rally and fight for them and paid with their lives?? That's what I wanna say.

Gotta 'love' white leftists fucking everyone over (including us, all over the world) by not organizing with Black people. This sucks.

Enjoying the book so far, hidden radical history of early 20th century civil rights struggle in the heartland of the midcentury civil rights movement AL

"Nearly all black rank-and-file Party members attended church regularly, and in Montgomery black Communists initiated the ironic (and short-lived) practice of opening their meetings with a prayer."

"“We Shall Not Be Moved” and the ever popular “Give Me That Old Time Religion” were stock musical forms used to create new Party songs. In the latter, the verse was changed to “Give Me That Old Communist Spirit,” and Party members closed out each stanza with “It was good enough for Lenin, and it's good enough for me.”