Kulturkampf

[benji]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/surging-progressive-once-said-black-democratic-leaders-defang-the-white-left_n_6a51a01ae4b084b03f7f0f6d

A progressive House candidate whose surge in a battleground district in Michigan has alarmed Democratic party officials once said Black U.S. political leaders are a “pillar” of the “capitalist, imperialist” American establishment whose backing for Democratic leadership “defangs the white left.”

William Lawrence, a co-founder of the Sunrise Movement who is running for the Democratic nomination in the state’s 7th congressional district, made his comments on the Sept. 10, 2024 episode of his podcast, Hegemonicon, which featured conversations about social movements and politics.

“The extent to which the older generation of Black political leadership are such a pillar, frankly, for establishment, capitalist, imperialist American power through their role as this kind of traditionalist, establishment-ist pillar of the Democratic Party, it’s a big problem,” Lawrence said around the 41:48 mark of the podcast. “It’s a big problem for left politics in this country. And it gets us every single time. It really defangs the white left and puts us in impossible positions, really.”

Lawrence said Friday he regrets his past comments, which were part of a conversation about Black liberation with his guest, Khury Petersen-Smith, a young Black activist and the Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies.

“I have tremendous respect for Black community leaders, who have been at the forefront of the fight for freedom for centuries,” he told HuffPost in a statement. “This was in the context of a wide-ranging conversation with a guest on the show about racial dynamics in progressive politics. I regret how this specific point was expressed.”

Look at him being defanged.  

In one sign that the party’s establishment is freaking out about Lawrence’s bid, a Democratic political action committee called “Crush MAGA PAC” is spending $532,000 on a new attack ad against him in his Michigan district.
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Parts of the ad are incredibly misleading. The investments in “Wall Street, big oil, and data centers” refer to the $11,000 in his retirement fund.

So, in other words, it's completely true? Investing in capital instead of giving mutual aid.