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BYJOSÉ SANCHEZ

"The rise of “Afro-pessimism” as a philosophy in academic and intellectual spaces threatens to undermine a politics rooted in such a sense of solidarity, in favor of one that essentializes black identity and exceptionalizes black suffering as intrinsically unanalogous to the oppression of other people.'

12:15 in The Institute of Black Imagination. podcast "E.53 On Afropessimism Part 2of 2 | Frank B. Wilderson III": 

“but I don't agree with is a sense that America can be improved through logical conversation and rational dialogue with the other, no America is a murderous Juggernaut, its job is to

murder, okay? that's what it's about, that's its reason for being.

it has killed more people around the world than than Hitler Genghis Khan and

Attila the Hun put together! okay? um that's what it does, okay?  that's how it gets its energy, okay? uh whether you're a democrat or a republican so I decided that I had to move in the world

in a way that would ultimately bring me more aggro but make me feel better about myself and the way I moved through world number one and number two when I spoke even if I'm speaking to a class or a mixed race audience you know I'm not really speaking to them I'm only speaking to black people, in other words everyone else in the room is just listening, everyone else anyone who's reading this book, is not black, is just listening and how do I get to that through? by bringing the funk with the energy that allows for black people to say I support the Palestinians against the Israelis but I also laugh at the Palestinians and ridicule the the puniness of their demand in comparison to the the totality of my demand that my embodied demand, okay? and so um ridicule uh

humor. sarcasm. and no sacred cows. has been how I've tried to roof

Response of podcast presenter: 14:26:

As a Palestinian PESSOPTIMIST, I aim to gather quotes and references from AfroPessimists, showcasing their discussions about Palestinians and the Palestine Liberation Movement.