Blake Rogers Wilson

We're reinstating the limited juvenile curfew in Washington, DC. Effective tonight, all youth under 18 are subject to an 11PM curfew—which will extend through 5/1. Designated zones will be subject to an 8PM curfew as determined by the Chief of Police.

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DC had a punk scene where teenagers ran up and down M Street, constantly fought, and posted up outside 7/11 and record stores beefing with each other. This is not some new collapse of civilization. It is teenage rebellion

This is incredible footage for at least 5 reasons 🤣

In America, kids are not allowed to be outside at night in large numbers because its too scary for the body armor clad, heavily armed police force.

Portrait - Here We Go Again! (1992)

An AfroCuban comrade sent me this latest attack on 🇨🇺 by Diaspora Dash where she calls Cuba a “White antiBlack state” and I need to respond fully bc she doesn’t allow comments and the stakes are too damn high to let this imperialist propaganda go unchecked: As usual, Dash collapses internal Black critique in Cuba into a regime change narrative. That distortion matters bc U.S. policy toward Cuba has long sought to generate hardship and internal disaffection to weaken and ultimately overthrow the Cuban govt. She opens w/a 1961 piece by Juan René Betancourt as if it’s some neutral sociological exposé. He was a critic of revolutionary centralization. The Communist Party of Cuba itself drew heavily from AfroCuban working class sectors and some of the “independent” Black organizations Betancourt defends were tied to Batista-era patronage networks. His piece is squarely situated within an anticommunist dissident political critique of the revolution, not outside that context Scholarly studies of race politics in revolutionary Cuba also note that early Black anticommunist critiques were often instrumentalized by Cold War geopolitics + exile opposition. And using AfroCubaWeb to build a flat indictment is especially sloppy, bc they publish anti-embargo material, and have long posted on the harms of U.S. policy toward Cuba. On the 2013 piece by Roberto Zurbano: his 2013 argument was not “Cuba is a white suprematist state.” It was that the Revolution made real material gains ag formal racial exclusion, but post Soviet realities, tourism-era stratifications, remittances, and market reforms reproduce disparate racial outcomes. Zurbano himself objected to the NYT headline and that many Black Cubans make similar critiques do so within, *not against* the socialist project. She continues to then use Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara’s San Isidro mvmnt that received direct funding from NED to decry “anti Black repression” in Cuba bc her ultimate stance is clear: Cuba is anti Black, therefore anti-imperialist solidarity is hollow, therefore pressure to topple the Cuban state is justified.😒