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| title = The Week the Mask Slipped: Neo-Confederalism’s Accelerating Assault (April 1-6, 2025) 
| image = Slave_rebellion_1839.jpg 
| caption = America’s oldest struggle: Black resistance vs. the state’s brutal reprisals. 
| image2 = Sharecroppers_union_1936.jpg 
| caption2 = [[Sharecroppers' Union]] armed self-defense, 1936—precedent for Lincoln Heights today. 
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== The Economic Front == 
{{Infobox systemic violence
Trump’s retaliatory 34% tariffs on foreign steel and electronics triggered a global financial panic, exposing the neo-confederalist agenda to revive **plantation economics through racialized austerity**. Stock indexes collapsed under the strain: 
| title = Blood & Braids: A Week of Neo-Confederate Assaults & Black Resistance (April 1-6, 2025)
| image = Slave_rebellion_1839.jpg
| caption | The eternal American dialectic: Black survival vs. state-sanctioned violence
| image2 = Sharecroppers_union_1936.jpg
| caption2 | Armed self-defense isn't new—it's as American as the Deacons for Defense (1964)
}}


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== The Week's Battlegrounds ==
{{!}} Index              {{!}} Closing Value {{!}} Loss (%) {{!}} 
Eight fronts in the ongoing war against Black existence:
{{!}}- 
{{!}} S&P 500            {{!}} 5,074.08      {{!}} -5.97    {{!}} 
{{!}} Nasdaq            {{!}} 15,587.79      {{!}} -5.82    {{!}} 
{{!}} Dow Jones          {{!}} 38,314.86      {{!}} -5.50    {{!}} 
{{!}} FTSE 100          {{!}} 8,054.98      {{!}} -4.95    {{!}} 
{{!}} Nikkei 225        {{!}} 33,780.58      {{!}} -2.75    {{!}} 
{{!}}} 


Markets cratered not from “uncertainty” but from recognizing the policy’s true aim: to rechain Black labor. By reshoring supply chains, the tariffs demand a disposable workforce—18% Black unemployment guarantees it. This is no fascist import; it’s a 21st-century [[Convict leasing|convict leasing system]], digitized and rebranded as “economic patriotism.” 
=== 1. Economic Neo-Plantationism ===
Trump's 34% tariffs weren't about "protecting workers"—they were about recreating captive labor pools. By reshoring manufacturing, the policy demands a return to cheap, disposable Black labor, mirroring convict leasing systems after Reconstruction.


== Cultural Counter-Revolution ==
=== 2. Memory Lynching ===
In Salt Lake City, bulldozers erased [[Black Lives Matter murals|BLM murals]] of George Floyd under the aegis of “urban renewal,” a playbook older than the 1921 [[Tulsa race massacre|Tulsa]] fires. Meanwhile, the Pentagon purged [[Jackie Robinson]]’s 1944 court-martial for resisting bus segregation from its archives, reframing it as a “personnel dispute.” 
The Pentagon erased Jackie Robinson's military service, proving even "acceptable" Black icons get disappeared when inconvenient. His 1944 court-martial for resisting bus segregation was memory-holed—just as Salt Lake City bulldozed BLM murals under "asbestos concerns."


[[File:Robinson_court_martial_1944.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Lt. Robinson’s 1944 court-martial for resisting segregation—erased by the same system that now claims to "honor" him.]]
[[File:Robinson_court_martial_1944.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Lt. Robinson's "crime"? Refusing the back of the bus at Fort Hood]]
These acts follow a neo-Jim Crow script: concede symbolic concessions during uprisings, then revoke them once dissent wanes. As with [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]]-era statues of Lincoln, today’s performative gestures exist only to be demolished, reminding Black America that even hard-won recognition is conditional. 


== The Liberal Charade ==
=== 3. The Liberal Minstrel Show ===
Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate filibuster achieved less than the [[Birmingham Children's Crusade|1963 Children’s Crusade]]. His theatrics yielded no voting rights expansion, no reparations—only headlines comparing him to [[Jimmy Stewart]]. Like Obama’s “hope,” it substituted catharsis for material change.
Cory Booker's 25-hour filibuster achieved less than a single day of the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade. Like Reconstruction-era Black legislators silenced by Klan violence, today's Black politicians perform outrage while voting for increased police funding.


The GOP’s tokenism trap snapped shut with Mia Love’s political demise. Hailed as a “history-making” Black Republican, she was discarded by Trump, who sneered, “She gave me no love.” Her fate proves Black conservatives remain tools for white neo-confederalism: paraded as proof of progress, then discarded once their utility expires.
=== 4. Chemical Warfare ===
10/10 synthetic hair products tested contained carcinogens; 9/10 had lead. This isn't negligence—it's corporate lynching by aerosol, with the FDA playing the role of passive spectator, just as Southern doctors ignored syphilis in Tuskegee.


== Resistance Rising ==
=== 5. Tokenism's Dead End ===
Lincoln Heights’ armed patrols drew condemnation from centrists, but the community knows their necessity. When neo-Confederate paramilitaries marched unopposed by police, residents resurrected tactics from the [[Deacons for Defense]] (1964) and [[Lowndes County Freedom Organization|Black Panther]] playbooks. “They forgot we come from people who turned cotton sacks into rebellion flags,” said organizer Janelle Harper.
The death of Mia Love, first Black GOP congresswoman, exposed the right's tokenism trap. Her career ended as it began: with Trump sneering "she gave me no love"—the same contempt shown to Hiram Revels when white allies abandoned him in 1871.


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=== 6. Museum Counter-Insurgency ===
|quote = "They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds." 
Trump's Smithsonian purge targeted African American history exhibits, continuing the tradition of burning Black achievement. This isn't fascism—it's as American as the 1893 World's Fair, where Black contributions were displayed in "primitive" dioramas.
|source = — [[Dinos Christianopoulos]] 
|width = 30% 
|align = right 
}} 


Parallel defiance emerged in Black haircare, where stylists launched co-op salons to bypass toxic relaxers. “Our grandparents used sweet potato paste when Monsanto poisoned the fields,” said Atlanta stylist Keisha Banks. “Now we’re doing the same.” 
=== 7. The Police Betrayal ===
When neo-Confederates marched in Lincoln Heights, police took no names—just as sheriffs turned away from lynch mobs. The community's response? Armed patrols echoing the Deacons for Defense's 1965 stand in Bogalusa.


== The Lesson ==
=== 8. The Beauty Industrial Complex ===
This week affirmed three truths: 
The $2.8B Black hair industry knowingly poisoned its customers, proving capitalism always commodifies Blackness before destroying it. But stylists are fighting back with chemical-free co-ops, just as Fannie Lou Hamer organized health clinics.


1. **State concessions are temporary loans**. Murals, museum exhibits, and “historic firsts” can—and will—be repossessed. 
== The Throughlines ==
2. **White supremacy isn’t “fascist” but quintessentially American**. Its logic predates Mussolini by centuries, rooted in plantation ledgers and slave patrols. 
3. **Survival demands autonomous power**. As Lincoln Heights proves, collective defense, land, and independent institutions remain the only vaccines against neo-confederalism. 


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    Nothing is given (murals, museum plaques, congressional seats)
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Template:Infobox systemic violence

The Week's Battlegrounds

Eight fronts in the ongoing war against Black existence:

1. Economic Neo-Plantationism

Trump's 34% tariffs weren't about "protecting workers"—they were about recreating captive labor pools. By reshoring manufacturing, the policy demands a return to cheap, disposable Black labor, mirroring convict leasing systems after Reconstruction.

2. Memory Lynching

The Pentagon erased Jackie Robinson's military service, proving even "acceptable" Black icons get disappeared when inconvenient. His 1944 court-martial for resisting bus segregation was memory-holed—just as Salt Lake City bulldozed BLM murals under "asbestos concerns."

File:Robinson court martial 1944.jpg
Lt. Robinson's "crime"? Refusing the back of the bus at Fort Hood

3. The Liberal Minstrel Show

Cory Booker's 25-hour filibuster achieved less than a single day of the 1963 Birmingham Children's Crusade. Like Reconstruction-era Black legislators silenced by Klan violence, today's Black politicians perform outrage while voting for increased police funding.

4. Chemical Warfare

10/10 synthetic hair products tested contained carcinogens; 9/10 had lead. This isn't negligence—it's corporate lynching by aerosol, with the FDA playing the role of passive spectator, just as Southern doctors ignored syphilis in Tuskegee.

5. Tokenism's Dead End

The death of Mia Love, first Black GOP congresswoman, exposed the right's tokenism trap. Her career ended as it began: with Trump sneering "she gave me no love"—the same contempt shown to Hiram Revels when white allies abandoned him in 1871.

6. Museum Counter-Insurgency

Trump's Smithsonian purge targeted African American history exhibits, continuing the tradition of burning Black achievement. This isn't fascism—it's as American as the 1893 World's Fair, where Black contributions were displayed in "primitive" dioramas.

7. The Police Betrayal

When neo-Confederates marched in Lincoln Heights, police took no names—just as sheriffs turned away from lynch mobs. The community's response? Armed patrols echoing the Deacons for Defense's 1965 stand in Bogalusa.

8. The Beauty Industrial Complex

The $2.8B Black hair industry knowingly poisoned its customers, proving capitalism always commodifies Blackness before destroying it. But stylists are fighting back with chemical-free co-ops, just as Fannie Lou Hamer organized health clinics.

The Throughlines

   Nothing is given (murals, museum plaques, congressional seats)

   Everything is taken (safety, memory, bodily autonomy)

   Resistance is ancestral (from sharecropper unions to Lincoln Heights patrols)

"America is about as much our country as the lion's cage is the lion's."

— Malcolm X (1963)

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