Deontay Kyle
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well then that means we have an overlapping experience and treatment from the system.
We might be in the same class.
And when you center identity over ideology and idealism, you can survive in the war machine.
Because you can't survive the war through isolation.
You can become more vulnerable through isolation, but you cannot survive through isolation.
If you look at the brothers that's in the FOI, they're extremely organized because they have centered identity.
Now, while they may have an ideology intertwined, it's one of the most widespread recognized ideologies in the world through Islam.
So in some points, it has become an identity, but for the FOI specifically, they center their blackness.
For the NOI, the NOI, they center their blackness.
It doesn't mean that they don't have shortcomings.
But they also don't reject outsiders.
You know, they come in peace.
They show a lot of love.
You know, I show this nigga a lot of love.
They know I ain't never joining.
But they show me love.
We have to note that the trauma affects us all differently emotionally and psychologically.
And this is where you get to embracing community without reverting back to individualism.
A big flaw of embracing community is that it's the antithesis of capitalism.