Reposted by Brandi Collins-Dexter
With Kanye claiming he's a Nazi and selling swastika T-shirts, I'm reminded of one of the more prescient books of the last few years from scholar Brandi Collins-Dexter (@brandicd.bsky.social). I interviewed her about the book three years ago. It predicted a lot more than just Kanye's latest turn.
techpolicy.press
Black Skinhead: A Conversation with Brandi Collins-Dexter | TechPolicy.Press
Part media criticism, part memoir, and part warning, the book takes us to the fringes of Black communities to make sense of our political moment.
![Proudly (and on camera) Candace responds, “And here’s where I disagree with your assessment.… So the problem that you’re facing is that, yes, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans should be competing, but do they want to?… [In Black Americans] you have people that are looking for excuses and looking to be victims..](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nyuxsj7cygpexckhnicn24hs/bafkreih6borsnbsfhcgfyccozrle5raw2nuh6jcatz4djoigtspfv33r5m)
![Article says: Chafkin interviewed two black female peers of Thiel’s who decades later both vividly remembered their encounters with him on this score.
Thiel allegedly told one: “It [apartheid] works”.
He allegedly told another that “South Africa’s systematic denial of civil rights to black people was economically sound”. (Thiel’s spokesperson denied all these encounters.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nyuxsj7cygpexckhnicn24hs/bafkreicf332ms5a3szftwbl3cmfecmmkj4k7yxqw3gg3ixe7om6q5aginm)
