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        "alt": "Part divine, part mechanical, part biological, black rebel cyborgs demand not democracy but freedom. They do not view the emergence of the nation-state from the ash of the colony (ghetto) burning down as the consummate victory. On a trajectory beyond Baldwin, and Fanon, they exist outside of humanity that fabricates time and measures freedom and enslavement by teaspoons or Tazers. Black cyborgs who relinquish claims to the nation-state become, like the namesake of Toni Morrison's The Song of Solomon, capable of movements that inspire flight.\nNot all black cyborgs are created equal nor do they all desire the same objectives. Some endowed with the superhuman powers of governmental or corporate entities reproduce existing structures with modifications.\nSome demand not to be ensnared or in complicity with an empire based on genocide. Cyborgs who reject the definition of democracy as freedom will struggle against the polis and those blacks who insist that no real social or political life exists outside the polis. This \"battle of the black cyborgs\" reveals a diversity of opponents influenced by civil rights liberalism or revolutionary nationalism. Such battles might be dismissed as a distracting sideshow, a cheesy entertainment spectacle of fixed wrestling replete with commercial breaks. Yet the gravity of Trayvon Martin's last wrestle with his opponent, the \"mortal combat\" against an enemy backed by white supremacy's judicial, police, and media machineries, is a compelling story, one about a youth who refused blackness-as-victimization, without any guarantee of redemption.",
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  "text": "... black rebel cyborgs demand not democracy but freedom. They do not view the emergence of the nation-state from the ash of the colony (ghetto) burning down as the consummate victory ... Black cyborgs who relinquish claims to the nation-state become ... capable of movements that inspire flight"
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