09/05/2026
Adding a layer here, I think one can be Black AND a woman/man AND experience disadvantage. BUT what happens when that same person, while historically disadvantaged, also holds political AND/OR institutional “power” (policing) that further disadvantages people within their own community?
Like, you know, Descendants of U.S. chattel slavery, for example, a group that was already INTENTIONALLY disadvantaged through public policies specifically designed to keep those disadvantages at play generationally.
Though King and Malcolm didn't talk about intersectionality, BOTH warned about liberals, AND "allies" becoming obstacles to our progress. (As we still see today.)
I think about political intersectionality and how our own politics and access to “power” can cause us to participate in or contribute to disadvantaging our own.
(As we saw in some of the responses from leaders following the recent tragedy.)
Being disadvantaged by one power structure DOES NOT mean you can't exercise "power" within another.
THIS needs to be explored more in Trenton.
Because if we're really trying to kill this thing at the ROOT, everybody has some deeper digging to do on all fronts.
