Today, July 27, 2020, makes 120 years since the valiant four-day shootout that a Black laborer named Robert Charles had with a police-led lynch mob in New Orleans. G & O recount Charles' story, which Ida B. Wells preserved, and its importance for Black freedom struggle today.

Brother G called O to see how he's holding up in these out-of-work coronavirus times. The brothers talk about how the so-called idle time carries unique anxieties for workers, and holds out unique chances for thinking-- and organizing-- new possibilities.

Today, G & O discuss the videos of "karens" and "chads" losing their minds and policing Black and brown people's public appearances and behaviors when they ought to mind their own business. The "karen" and "chad" videos are little documentaries exposing the violent antiblack fantasies of individual people that reflect a broader collective antiblack fantasy. This fantasy shapes the antiblack social structure we live in, including things like the urban geography and disposal of environmental toxins. G & O also go into how the same structure of antiblack fantasies that created the modern world 500 years ago is still visible in the "karen" and *chad" videos.

For July 4th, All Thought Is Black Thought podcast hosts G & O talk about the ways white people are still hitting the crackpipe of antiblackness in the fantasies they have about what life is like for Black folks. Because the power dynamic of slavery is still present in Black lives, Black people's knowledge of how slavery has continued to define  our lives can empower us to effect radical change. That's why, in a time when the lens of slavery is among the sanest ways to look at the contradictions of modern Black life, many forces are trying to suppress Black folks' acknowledgement of how slavery remains present in our lives. When it comes to Black thought, policing isn't just done by the "boys in blue," but by other parties-- including educators, colleagues, neighbors, friends, and karens-- who are unofficially deputized to police Black bodies and Black thought.

Black life in an antiblack world has special contradictions: What we must expect (violence from those who supposedly protect us) is something we cannot accept. Calling out these contradictions requires disrupting the social order. Read this piece at cosmichoboes [dot] blogspot [dot] com

In EPISODE #1, G & O define Black leadership and look at how certain forms of Black leadership are trying to pacify the struggle against police murder in the George Floyd uprisings while new radical forms of Black leadership are emerging