David Evans
@forthepoor.bsky.social
professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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July 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Alliances for the win?
June 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Alliances for the win?
G Washington was the leader of a colonial settlement that held Africans as prisoners and warred against indigenous people. He helped create this situation.
June 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
G Washington was the leader of a colonial settlement that held Africans as prisoners and warred against indigenous people. He helped create this situation.
I appreciate the exchange
June 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I appreciate the exchange
I hear you. I asked a lot of questions:
I think representative democracy is insufficient. That the US demonstrates no effort at achieving full participation or true democracy reveals the systemic privileges of elites. Under the system of neo-colonialism/global capitalism there is true democracy
I think representative democracy is insufficient. That the US demonstrates no effort at achieving full participation or true democracy reveals the systemic privileges of elites. Under the system of neo-colonialism/global capitalism there is true democracy
insufficient.th
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I hear you. I asked a lot of questions:
I think representative democracy is insufficient. That the US demonstrates no effort at achieving full participation or true democracy reveals the systemic privileges of elites. Under the system of neo-colonialism/global capitalism there is true democracy
I think representative democracy is insufficient. That the US demonstrates no effort at achieving full participation or true democracy reveals the systemic privileges of elites. Under the system of neo-colonialism/global capitalism there is true democracy
Thanks for your comment. Does that mean that representative democracy is sufficient? And we should fight to uphold some semblance of that practice in the future? And what do you make of the reality that fewer than 65% of people voted in those elections?
June 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thanks for your comment. Does that mean that representative democracy is sufficient? And we should fight to uphold some semblance of that practice in the future? And what do you make of the reality that fewer than 65% of people voted in those elections?
You make a valid point! And Empathy matters. That said, I have another question: Can democracy have empathy AND capitalism?
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You make a valid point! And Empathy matters. That said, I have another question: Can democracy have empathy AND capitalism?