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The Week the Mask Slipped: Neo-Confederalism’s Accelerating Assault (April 1-6, 2025)

File:Slave rebellion 1839.jpg America’s oldest struggle: Black resistance vs. the state’s brutal reprisals.

The Economic Front

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:

|-" | Index | Closing Value | Loss (%) | |- | 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 system, digitized and rebranded as “economic patriotism.”

Cultural Counter-Revolution

In Salt Lake City, bulldozers erased BLM murals of George Floyd under the aegis of “urban renewal,” a playbook older than the 1921 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.”

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Lt. Robinson’s 1944 court-martial for resisting segregation—erased by the same system that now claims to "honor" him.

These acts follow a neo-Jim Crow script: concede symbolic concessions during uprisings, then revoke them once dissent wanes. As with 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

Cory Booker’s 25-hour Senate filibuster achieved less than the 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.

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.

Resistance Rising

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 Black Panther playbooks. “They forgot we come from people who turned cotton sacks into rebellion flags,” said organizer Janelle Harper.

"They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds."

— Dinos Christianopoulos

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.”

The Lesson

This week affirmed three truths:

1. **State concessions are temporary loans**. Murals, museum exhibits, and “historic firsts” can—and will—be repossessed. 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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