Afro peszzz

 Afro-pessimism departs with this understanding and illuminates

the limits and failures of the Civil Rights and Black Power

movements, such as their reformist ideologies concerning progress

and their disastrous integration with bureaucratic machinery. If,

as Afro-pessimism shows, it is not possible to affirm Blackness

itself without at the same time affirming anti-Black violence, then

the attempts at recognition and inclusion in society will only ever

result in further social and real death. Individuals can of course

achieve some status in society through “structural adjustment”9

(i.e., a kind of “whitening” effect), as has been superficially

confirmed, but Blackness as a racialized category remains the

object of gratuitous, constituent violence—as demonstrated

by police murders, mass incarceration, urban planning, and

surveillance (from cointelpro to special security codes at stores

to indicate when Black customers enter). As Blackness is negated

by the relations and structures of society, Afro-pessimism posits

that the only way out is to negate that negation.

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