Deontay Kyle

Something will come along that will just open your eyes to this war machine that is America.

But before being radicalized, you have to recognize that you are in a war machine.

You have to come to terms with that.

You have to be accepting of that.

You have to reject American exceptionalism.

And this is the precursor to the radicalization.

Once most people wake up to the idea that maybe America ain't so fucking great and never has been.

They become radicalized.

And this can happen through literature.

I would say a lot of people become radicalized through literature.

I would say a lot of people become radicalized by hearing positivity and love spoken over black people or over whatever group they identify with.

And through that radicalization, you can center identity over ideology and idealism.

You have to recognize the overlaps in experience and treatment.

So oftentimes when we talk diaspora wars, we don't look at the overlaps that we have in experience with the colonizer and the treatment from the colonizer.

Oftentimes we look at side to side because it's easier.

It's a lot easier to attack a black American than to respect the history of the black American and give them credit for paving the way for you to be here and experience the freedoms that you do experience just so you can kiss the white man's ass.

black people made it possible for you to kiss the white man's ass.

But the reason why I don't engage in diaspora wars is because I know the trauma and how it affects us all differently.

And it affects us all differently, emotionally and psychologically.

A lot of people have to break those chains off their minds.