AOC to women of color: "Stop trying to navigate systems of power and start building your own power."

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Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez's advice to the next generation of WOC leaders is spot on. 🔥🔥🔥

"Stop trying to navigate systems of power and start building your own power."
—@AOC

[PoliticAverse]

1. Says the person who got herself elected to "a system of power". n/t

[ProfessorPlum]

2. what an empty comment

[ProfessorPlum]

3. I mean, honestly, do you think that AOC hasn't built her own power?

with: community organizing, door-to-door canvassing and campaigning, social media, Justice Democrats, etc. etc.

She's followed her own advice, and is now creating major change in the conversation in Congress, one of America's most hated institutions. She's not locked in with the House or Representatives. They're locked in with her.

[PoliticAverse]

4. You know who she is because she successfully "navigated a system of power". n/t

[ProfessorPlum]

7. Whatever

I guess continue to sneer at her if that's what peels your banana

[TheBlackAdder]

5. That comment shows absolutely zero critical thought, and is just reactionary.

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The system of power, as in a government political construct is a set institution, not what she is talking about.

She nailed it, by not acknowledging the hegemonic White European model of behavior.


W. E, B. DuBois wrote a nice piece, called The Souls of Black Folk, which presents the two faces African Americans must wear to survive in White America. There is your inner self, and the fabricated presentational self that must be carried to avoid overt criticism. That shifting between inner and outer self is not only draining, but fractures the personality of those attempting it. It's like living two lives.

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[ismnotwasm]

6. Oh oh.