{"id":93879,"date":"2025-03-14T02:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T02:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/economic-chaos-political-upheaval-and-the-call-to-fight-back-thyblackman-com\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T02:15:39","slug":"economic-chaos-political-upheaval-and-the-call-to-fight-back-thyblackman-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacktwitter.com\/economic-chaos-political-upheaval-and-the-call-to-fight-back-thyblackman-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Chaos, Political Upheaval, and the Call to Fight Back. \u2013 ThyBlackMan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Like<\/p>\n<p>\nLike<br \/>\nLove<br \/>\nHaha<br \/>\nWow<br \/>\nSad<br \/>\nAngry\n<\/p>\n<p>\n1\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>(ThyBlackMan.com)\u00a0It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th\u00a0President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms, in business.\u00a0 Many of us who cover this news are experiencing extreme whiplash.\u00a0 Wolf tickets barked at our allies.\u00a0 Tariffs here and gone tomorrow. Tantrums in the Oval Office.\u00a0 State Departments of Education being threatened.\u00a0\u00a0 Stock markets crashing, with the market\u2019s logging its worse performance for a \u201cnew\u201d President since 2009.\u00a0 People are apprehensive about their pensions and their jobs and have dialed back their spending as a result.\u00a0 Consumer spending drives the economy, and many consumers aren\u2019t confident enough (consumer confidence is down by more than 9 percent) to take on extra spending.\u00a0 We are in the middle of a \u201cball of confusion\u201d the Temptations referenced in their 1970 song.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The 47th\u00a0President promised no business as usual.\u00a0 What he meant was no business at all!\u00a0 The disruption that has riddled both the federal government and our total way of life is, at best, disturbing.\u00a0 Not everyone is experiencing it, but everyone knows someone who is.\u00a0 What are we to do?\u00a0 I say that in the middle of disruption, of being shaken up, we go back to basics, back to our roots.\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 We shop Black, work Black, live Black, aspire Black.\u00a0 Too many of us drank the integration Kool-Aid without tasting all the integration flavor.\u00a0 In other words, nothing wrong with integration if we value ourselves.\u00a0 The white man\u2019s ice is not colder.\u00a0 White man\u2019s laws are not fairer.\u00a0 Those deluded folk who seemed to think that the 47th\u00a0President would be better for the economy are now about to find out what Malcolm X meant when he talked about \u201cchickens coming home to roost\u201d.\u00a0 Some of the very people who were touting 47 in November are now whining about job losses, portfolio shrinkage, and deportation.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been there, done that with government cutbacks.\u00a0 The most glaring history is that of the racist President Woodrow Wilson who fired most of the senior Black people in his administration.\u00a0 Most notably, the demotion of Daniel Murray, Assistant Librarian of Congress was a disgrace that reminds us that those who serve at \u201cthe pleasure of the President\u201d can be easily let go.\u00a0 Their firings may be challenged but the work of their agencies will slow, if not stop.\u00a0 And the 47th\u00a0President\u2019s overreaching has a chilling effect on the progress of some agencies.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the 47th\u00a0President attempted to remove Gywnne Wilcox as a member of the National Labor Relations Board shortly after he was installed.\u00a0 A federal judge reminded 47 that he did not the authority to fire the member of the independent agency.\u00a0 In her decision, US District Judge Beryl Howell wrote that \u201cAn American president is not a king \u2013 not even a elected one \u2013 and his power to remove federal officers and honest civil servants like plaintiff is not absolute. \u00a0\u00a0The NLRB were crippled for a few weeks because they lacked a quorum.\u00a0 What else can we look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>As an African American history scholar, I am especially concerned about Smithsonian Leader Dr. Lonnie Bunche, an amazing scholar and leader.\u00a0 His term lasts until 2027, but if he serves \u201cat the pleasure\u201d of a President who does not believe in Black history or diversity, his days may be numbered.\u00a0 Similarly, Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th\u00a0Librarian of Congress, was appointed by President Biden to serve as the first woman and the first African American in that role.\u00a0 Her term ends in 2026.\u00a0 47 may hold his powder, or he may go after her sooner.\u00a0\u00a0 These amazing public servants may find themselves on the chopping \u00a0\u00a0as 47 and his co-President Musk take their buzz saw the federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s overtime for us to fight outward and build inward.\u00a0 Fight outward \u2013 protest, protest, protest.\u00a0 Build inward \u2014 strengthen our connections, work more collaboratively, and when folk like Dr. Bunche and Dr. Hayden are threatened, prepare to clap back.<\/p>\n<p>In 1919, the Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay wrote:<\/p>\n<p>If we must die, let it not be like hogs, haunted and penned to this inglorious spot<\/p>\n<p>While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs<\/p>\n<p>Making their mock at our accursed lot.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful poem, written when the Red Summer of 1919 saw multiple massacres of Black people in at least 26 cities.\u00a0 Been there, done that?<\/p>\n<p>The poem ends both defiantly and as inspiration for today.<\/p>\n<p>Like men (Malveaux adds women) we\u2019ll face the murderous cowardly pack,<\/p>\n<p>Pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of disruption, we must return to our roots, and we must fight back, surgically and strategically.\u00a0 We have no choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_7\">Written by\u00a0Julianne Malveaux<\/p>\n<p>Official website;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliannemalveaux.com\/\">https:\/\/www.juliannemalveaux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thyblackman.com\/2025\/03\/13\/the-47th-presidents-turbulent-start-economic-chaos-political-upheaval-and-the-call-to-fight-back\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry 1 (ThyBlackMan.com)\u00a0It has not yet been sixty days, but in two scant months the 47th\u00a0President has upended business as usual, in federal government, in classrooms, in business.\u00a0 Many of us who cover this news are experiencing extreme whiplash.\u00a0 Wolf tickets barked at our allies.\u00a0 Tariffs here and 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