The phrase "I don't dream of labor" started trending a few months ago. Several videos from other creators and plenty of tik toks have been speaking on this idea of divesting from labor.

While this makes plenty of sense overall, I can't help but think that it seems to be a bit shortsighted or at least, not very inclusive, especially when you start to consider gender and race in the equation.

In response, I wanted to think about the way work has...worked for black men throughout history. How and why does work define us? How would divestment from work...work for black men? Now that I think about it, isn't this something we've been doing for a while now?

Chapters
00:00 Intro/A Short History of Racial Terrorism
05:16 What is "I Don't Dream of Labor"?
10:18 John Henryism
25:14 Legal Hustlers
32:31 Illegal Hustlers
37:25 Why "I Don't Dream of Labor" isn't for me/Final Thoughts

For Harriet's, I Don't Dream of Labor overview    • Is it even worth it to work hard? Let...  

Kidology's Critique of the movement    • The "I don't dream of labour" trend n...  

The Storyteller    / thestorytelleraj  

Saint Andrewism    / @andrewism  

Devah Pager article https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

Discrimination in school discipline https://academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...

Color blind racism https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/...

Lynchings and Racial Terrorism https://eji.org/wpcontent/uploads/20...

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