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🌱 Watch this clip from Trick Baby for a visual embodiment of how racial co-optation works: Trick Baby Dinner Scene (1974)
Bonus Content: This clip punctuates Political co-optation in real life
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the Axe,
for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood,
he was one of them”
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Burning House Politics
Takes its name from Dr. King’s infamous quote about integrating into a burning house. This chapter critiques the co-optation of Black political leaders who become symbols rather than strategists, and the cost of assimilation.