“Some platforms or movements that start with meaningful intentions often lose their original focus and turn into profit-driven entities. It’s frustrating when a space that was once focused on empowerment and growth shifts into superficiality or even harmful ideologies, especially when the complexities of race, history, and systemic injustice are reduced to oversimplified narratives like “it’s all about money.”
The historical reality is that marginalized communities have often been systematically oppressed, even when they successfully integrated into society. The argument that it’s “not about race” is a deliberate erasure of the socio-economic and racial context that underpins many of these issues.
It’s a stark reminder that ignoring or minimizing the intersections of race, class, and power doesn’t just erase history—it perpetuates ongoing harm. EYL is doing the community a grave disservice by idolizing a misogynist, racist, felon.
I hope it’s worth it.”
Newlife18! via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/19/24