The Pitfalls of Liberalism

The Seasoning 2 Finale

The Baddies Have Delivered, Again!! After an incredible seven month run, Season 2 of the Revolutionary Baddies Podcast is coming to a close. DO NOT PANIC! This is only the Season Finale. So let’s break down the season’s accomplishments. We have recorded 22 episodes, surpassed 6,000 downloads, reached listeners in 473 cities and 59 countries, and hosted 2 in person events through our book club series, “Read and Yap”, and gained 50 new Patreon members.. Most importantly, we’ve continued to build organic relationships with our listeners, established ourselves as trusted voices/sources of knowledge, and ignited meaningful conversations that push our collective consciousness forward. This season was all about understanding what makes a revolution and how history can be used as a tool in the process. Brittany and Dee Dee hope you have enjoyed this season more than they did. Thank you thank you thank you! Questions for our listeners What was your favorite episode from Season 2? What was your favorite moment from Season 2? Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 22 Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_Talents] Hood Wellness by Tamela J. Gordon [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/179920788-hood-wellness]  Women’s Freedom and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara [https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3070519-women-s-liberation-and-the-african-freedom-struggle] From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by Wlliam A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Miller [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48815488-from-here-to-equality] Assata: An Autobiography [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata] The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242936.The_Mis_Education_of_the_Negro] Survival Is A Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by alexis pauline gumbs [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790645-survival-is-a-promise] Return to the Source: Selected Speeches by Amilcar Cabral [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1392450.Return_to_the_Source] Stokley Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211858.Stokely_Speaks] All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17607.All_About_Love] Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Ada B. Wells [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203938.Crusade_for_Justice] Baracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2590136-barracoon] Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951.Sister_Outsider] The Conjure Workbook Volume 1: Working the Root by Starr Casas [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17824244-the-conjure-workbook-volume-1] Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation by Beth Richie [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14964005-arrested-justice] Black. Single. Mothering: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging by Jamilah Lemieux [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205436019-black-single-mother]  Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/962568.Soledad_Brother] Ella Baker and the Radical Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200217.Ella_Baker_and_the_Black_Freedom_Movement?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10] The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2287278.The_American_Revolution] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467282/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink] Instagram & Threads: @revolutionarybaddies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionaryBaddies Patreon: patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies

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As Revolutionary Baddies wind down Season 2, they bring to life an old story of ordinary people doing revolutionary things. The story of Local 22 in Winston-Salem is a story of Black working class power and unapologetic spirit to fight and demand better conditions, pay, and respect. The 1960s Civil Rights Movement tends to receive all of the glory, but the 1930s- 1940s struggle across the Black working class built the foundation for those movements. North Carolina is home to some of the largest and most influential historical resistance movements. Local 22 is one of those moments, led by Black women that believed in maintaining their dignity, organizing class solidarity, and growth. Hopefully, this episode brings you a deeper connection to Black workers struggles and how we all could be playing a better role for the sake of freedom.  Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467282/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink] Instagram & Threads: @revolutionarybaddies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionaryBaddies Patreon: patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies

"The Black Revolution in America" by Grace Lee Boggs

In 1968, revolutionary freedom fighter Grace Lee Boggs wrote an essay speaking to the definition and need for a Black Revolution. She provides us with a grounded assessment of what a revolution in the US means for our collective work. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies dissect her essay, which is featured in “Black Women: An Anthology” by Toni Cade Bambara. Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese-American organizer, writer, and educator moving through and with the Black Liberation Struggle in 1940s- 1970s. She advocated for evolution and developed a reputation alongside her husband, James Boggs, who was also a revolutionary organizer in Detroit. More than ever, the political and economic climate is calling for a new sense of urgency and a deeper understanding of what a revolution requires.  Questions for our listeners Who will lead the revolution? Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 20 W.E.B.Dubois: A Rebel With A Cause. Full Documentary [https://youtu.be/I2_GVDDo0N8?si=iFXvIIC5uDI2TQu9] American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs. Full Documentary [https://youtu.be/DV1YBgANZY8?si=uU8f4NRV_isHBobs] The Black Woman: An Anthology by Toni Cade Bambara [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157928.The_Black_Woman] The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook by James Boggs  [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2287278.The_American_Revolution] “Mortal Man”, Kendrick Lamar [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kendricklamar/mortalman.html] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467282/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink] Instagram & Threads: @revolutionarybaddies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionaryBaddies Patreon: patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies

The Pitfalls of Liberalism

The underlying theme of this season of Revolutionary Baddies is to articulate what makes a revolution. This analysis must include what destroys a revolution. Liberalism is the ideology that carries history of negotiating, obliging, coddling, pacifying, and coercing with imperialism. Liberalism is also the default political ideology of most Black people in this country. This essay, “The Pitfalls of Liberalism” by Kwame Ture was written in 1969 and carries lessons for all of us today. Building organization and unity towards freedom becomes impossible with liberalism unchecked. In the episode, Brittany and Dee Dee provide a relevant discussion of the ways we see liberalism play out today and how we can combat it.  Question for our listeners: How are you combatting liberalism? Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 19 Over 100 Campus Police Departments Got Military Equipment Through This Federal Program [https://www.theeduledger.com/home/article/15107343/over-100-campus-police-departments-got-military-equipment-through-this-federal-program] Stokley Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211858.Stokely_Speaks] Combat Liberalism. by Mao Zedong [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25431690-combat-liberalism] The Founding Fathers Feared Political Faction Would Tear The Nation Apart [https://www.history.com/articles/founding-fathers-political-parties-opinion] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467282/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink] Instagram & Threads: @revolutionarybaddies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionaryBaddies Patreon: patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies

"Give Light and People Will Find the Way" -Ella Baker

As Ella Baker gave her class valedictorian speech at Shaw University, she left these words and these words led her life. Arguably, one of the most effective and committed grassroots organizer of the 20th century. Ella Baker was an architect behind the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and a leader that believed in the power of everyday people doing extraordinary things. In this episode, Revolutionary Baddies attempt to capture this hero and how she navigated the decades of powerful change. From her time as a student at Shaw University, the oldest HBCU in the South, to her founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Mrs. Baker brought tenacity, resilience, clarity, and resourcefulness to her vision of freedom. Her life and legacy deserves celebration, study, and praise. Hope you enjoy! Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 18 The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51183428-the-love-songs-of-w-e-b-du-bois] The Slave Market by Ella Baker and Marvel Cooke, NAACP [https://www.crmvet.org/info/slavemkt.htm] Young Negroes Cooperative League [https://youtu.be/E_DB5lu5w_g?si=O2Y8_2aXHpbuCAXw] In Friendship, a fundraising organization founded by Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and others [https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/friendship] Ella Baker and the Radical Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200217.Ella_Baker_and_the_Black_Freedom_Movement?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_10] Black Scare/Red Scare by Charisse Burden-Stelly [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123227063-black-scare-red-scare] Ella Baker Organizes NAACP Chapters in the South [https://snccdigital.org/events/ella-baker-organizes-naacp-chapters/] Royal Ice Cream Parlour Sit-In [https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/royal-ice-cream-sit-in-1957/] Southern Christian Leadership Conference, S.C.L.C. [https://snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/alliances-relationships/sclc/] Ella Baker’s Impact On Civil Rights Movement [https://sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-40th-anniversary-vol-02/] Congress of Racial Equality, C.O.R.E. [https://snccdigital.org/inside-sncc/alliances-relationships/core/] Robert F. Williams [https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/williams-robert-f-1925-1996/] Want To Start A Revolution? By Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7157574-want-to-start-a-revolution] Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310386.Freedom_Summer] Black Visions: The Roots of African-American Contemporary Ideologies by Michael C. Dawson [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2293314.Black_Visions] Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of A Movement Man by Hollis Watkins [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34687627-brother-hollis] This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210783-this-nonviolent-stuff-ll-get-you-killed] On The Freedom Side: How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History by Wesley Hogan [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44601334-on-the-freedom-side] Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2467282/fan_mail/new] Support the show [https://patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink] Instagram & Threads: @revolutionarybaddies Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RevolutionaryBaddies Patreon: patreon.com/RevolutionaryBaddies