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left a long comment on this video because white ppl frustrate me sometimes, here it is in plain text:

My first mistake was watching a white wmn explain racism as a Black Person, and I'll own up to that. However, since i've already watched the video i might as well talk about how y'all should not be this far behind progress in 2026. The "White Ppl Who Get It™" have their feet kissed every day for displaying political beliefs that barely meet the minimum requirements of what would be considered progressive thought. There's more than enough people being supportive and uncritical towards the ideas put forth in this video so I'll do the opposite, not to be contrarian, but because we've been having the same conversations for at least a decade and there's too many ppl stuck on this area of their political journey. 1st off you have to call it what it is, MAGA isn't stupid for accepting Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, they're racist.

It was never actually "America First", it was White Colonizers First. You can see it in how they're perfectly fine with their beloved leader cracking down on the "free speech" they supposedly cherished when they were justifying their desire to use slurs with no consequence. There's nothing genuine about them, they're not misunderstood, confused, or secretly good ppl deep down. They're bad people who believe in bad things, and will say and do anything to get what they want. This is not a Hanlon's Razor moment, they really are just malicious, not stupid.

It's very frustrating watching white ppl give their own the benefit of the doubt no matter how bad things get, that's a luxury we don't have. Our reputations do not come with get out of jail free cards and the worst is often assumed of us even when we're doing nothing wrong, so on average we HAVE to have integrity. One of my main issues with white ppl is that they think everything is singular and nothing is connected. All forms of inequality have to go or the rest will sprout back up eventually like the head of a hydra. This Lady acknowledged the relations between different inequalities in this same video, so there's no way she shouldn't be able to fully understand this concept.

She said that poor white ppl needed a racial group to feel superior to or they would be reminded that they’re poor. That can only end in one of two ways, either they join forces with the racial minorities in the fight against classism, or they do what they’re doing RIGHT NOW and fight to maintain white supremacy. EVERYTHING HAS TO GO, racism, sexism, classism, anti-LGBT, etc. You cannot say "let's get rid of racial inequality" while saying at the end that it's okay to keep wealth inequality. She believes that's not what she's saying because she vocalized a desire to narrow the wealth gap, but in that same breath she denounced socialism and communism.

If you don't do away with the tools of oppression you will get nowhere, it'll reappear somewhere else. We can't get rid of racism as long as white ppl still hold institutional power over minorities, especially Natives. In the same vein, we can't get rid of classism & poverty so long as money exists. Money's value comes from other people having less than the next person, that's why wage theft, inflation, wealth hoarding and monetary exploitation in general exist. If everybody is rich then nobody is rich, and if you plan on stopping inflation and making everything fairly priced then there's no point in having money, cut out the middle man.

If white ppl really cared they would relinquish all of the power they hold and give the land back to the Natives. Explaining racial injustuce 101 to other white ppl (Cuz she’s definitely not teaching Black Ppl anything new) while justifying classism at the end is blatantly harmful & counterproductive to whatever change white ppl claim they want to make. Even the phrase used near the end that has obvious racial connotation given it's history, “if those (white) immigrants hate america so much, they need to leave”, should be the last attitude a white person should be taking about anyone. Obviously i'm no mind-reader but I don't believe that was tongue-in-cheek, the creator of this video gives off the vibe that she actually believes in that way of thinking (white american sovereignty), just not towards Black & Brown Ppl. She didn't say "we need to change our thinking", she said "we need to change our messaging".

To me that sounds like an admission of already having that mindset but not showing it publicly. A white person using xenophobia to fight racists in order to preserve the sovereignty of a nation ruled by colonizers is not "woke", we should instead be doing away with these bigoted institutions altogether. Between both groups of white ppl in that conversation, American Land belongs to neither group, it's audacious and disrespectful to suggest otherwise. How do the white ppl who say these things expect to do better than racists when they think just like them? Everything must be a joke to them, because what do they care anyways?

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What are mycorrhizae?

mycorrhizae (pronounced “my-core-ih-zigh”) are mutual relationships between fungi and plant roots. They move nutrients between plants they are connected to. They can also sap nutrients from one part of a fungal network. They spread vastly within an ecosystem in ways that prevent researchers from being able to trace where the network begins or ends. They play both pathogenic and symbiotic roles. They develop in very steady, slow ways. Occasionally you see mushrooms sprouting up, aboveground, but mycorrhizae are primarily an underground entity. In this Kickback we see them as emblems for what Anarkata movement building feels like, since we work from the ground (or underground), and work from the roots (as Black Anarchic Radicals).

I cannot tell you how much I love the fungal comparison for underground/criminalized socio-political actions and spaces, I've been spinning up about it since I first heard it and I'm prolly gonna ramble about that more later lol

I imagine they'll get to it, but part of what appeals to me in that metaphor is the feeling of taking root. Mycorrhizae are critical to the rooting and uprooting of plants. When the Mycorrhizae network is damaged, plants are less resilient and less capable of self-propogation (aka more reliant on intentional spread/cultivation by "predators" and less capable of producing healthy, self perpetuating plant ecosystems).

The modern state was invented to secure the material interests of Western empire through the notion of modern “sovereignty” in the Treaty of Westphalia. States uphold the economy of Black suffering, commodification, and African dispossession engendered through slavery and colonialism and in so doing, enable the capture, enslavement, and securance of Black people and lands as property.

The Westphalian nation state crystallizes these anti-Black and colonial and capitalist functions of statism by ideologically centering the “human” citizen subject as its main concern, while excluding Black people and rendering us as enslavable under the state. States consolidate the power that allow for our thingification to be possible, and depend on the police to protect and enforce its hierarchies, codifying anti-blackness in law.

Anarkatas maintain that all states are inherently anti-Black structures of governance, ultimately incapable in bringing Black people toward full self-determination and autonomous community formations.

Whatever provision of protection from violence that a state (especially a Westphalian one) may provide is limited in the face of capital and white supremacy. Anarkatas therefore link neither national liberation, autonomous community formation, nor self-determination for Black people to the formation of a State, and believe that all of these can and ultimately should be developed by the community in non-State formations.

Anarkatas are against the existence of all states everywhere due to their inherent anti-blackness and dependency on centralized power, forms of enclosure, and property securance. We see the formation of Black nation states as a dysfunctional, counterrevolutionary means to achieve Black liberation because they pose serious weaknesses and do not release Black/African people from these initial vulnerabilities.

However, we recognize the unifying role of Black nationalism in anti-colonial movements and affirm that the continuing debate around our way forward must be worked out among ourselves without any interference from non-Black people."

Most of us in “anarchic” Black radical movements, however, find ourselves overlooked, and our politics get confused and dismissed as synonymous with classical, European Anarchism—which is itself often misunderstood by the non-anarchic world as largely an aesthetic and utopian movement, perhaps where people in bandannas smash windows or advocate an individualist liberty, a naive pacifism, or simply uncoordinated destruction and “chaos.”

It is within this milieu—of the increased popularity and relevance of anarchism to Black revolution, and the confusing or elusive nature of this relevance in the public consciousness due to anarchist mythology—that some of us decided we should develop our own name, to help demonstrate that we locate our anarchic radicalism in our own history as Afrikan/Black people.