floydwebb
@floydwebb.bsky.social
Born in Mississippi raised in Illinois, citizen of the world.
Dick Cheney may be gone, but the Homeland he built remains. This essay traces how the logic of endless security fused with neoliberal austerity to create an occupied America — and how, here in Chicago, a new architecture of care is rising from the ruins.
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Dispatch from Occupied Territory: The Yellow Brick Road to Fascism
A farewell to Dick Cheney and the architecture of the Homeland State
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November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Dick Cheney may be gone, but the Homeland he built remains. This essay traces how the logic of endless security fused with neoliberal austerity to create an occupied America — and how, here in Chicago, a new architecture of care is rising from the ruins.
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We honor presidents who owned slaves & generals who fought to preserve bondage, yet there’s no national holiday for John Brown—the man who gave his life to end it. Why does America fear to celebrate its most honest patriot? What does our silence about him reveal.
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John Brown and the Moral Imagination of Rebellion
A Role Model for White Activism, America’s Most Honest Patriot
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November 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We honor presidents who owned slaves & generals who fought to preserve bondage, yet there’s no national holiday for John Brown—the man who gave his life to end it. Why does America fear to celebrate its most honest patriot? What does our silence about him reveal.
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In When the Uniform No Longer Protects You, I trace how agencies like ICE have created an “architecture of impunity” through undertraining, financial incentives, and political silence.
“The badge doesn’t protect you from the law; it marks you for it.”
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“The badge doesn’t protect you from the law; it marks you for it.”
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From ICE to the Goon Squad: When the Uniform No Longer Protects You and Lessons from the Fall of Impunity
America’s enforcement agencies aren’t inventing new corruption — they’re rebuilding an old architecture of impunity, one history has already condemned.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
In When the Uniform No Longer Protects You, I trace how agencies like ICE have created an “architecture of impunity” through undertraining, financial incentives, and political silence.
“The badge doesn’t protect you from the law; it marks you for it.”
open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...
“The badge doesn’t protect you from the law; it marks you for it.”
open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...
This project came about through a lifelong network of international friendships. From Chicago to Paris to Haiti and Florida.
Congrats to Producer Joaquin Landau of Federation MEAC and filmmaker/animator Paul Louise-Julie.
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Congrats to Producer Joaquin Landau of Federation MEAC and filmmaker/animator Paul Louise-Julie.
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YOHANCE, the first-of-its-kind African sci-fi saga, opens Creation Africa 2025 in Lagos!
Created and animated by Paul Louise-Julie, this visionary short blends animation and motion capture to bring… ...
YOHANCE, the first-of-its-kind African sci-fi saga, opens Creation Africa 2025 in Lagos!
Created and animated by Paul Louise-Julie, this visionary short blends animation and motion capture to bring t...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This project came about through a lifelong network of international friendships. From Chicago to Paris to Haiti and Florida.
Congrats to Producer Joaquin Landau of Federation MEAC and filmmaker/animator Paul Louise-Julie.
www.linkedin.com/posts/yohanc...
Congrats to Producer Joaquin Landau of Federation MEAC and filmmaker/animator Paul Louise-Julie.
www.linkedin.com/posts/yohanc...
Communities being occupied is nothing new to African Americans. An irony that we have long endured — armed surveillance, economic containment, and state neglect — is now expanding to encompass poor white and brown communities, and, in a final irony, America itself.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Communities being occupied is nothing new to African Americans. An irony that we have long endured — armed surveillance, economic containment, and state neglect — is now expanding to encompass poor white and brown communities, and, in a final irony, America itself.
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Barack Obama’s presidency was both a triumph of symbolism and a tragedy of structure — a moment when eloquence met empire, and the dream of transformation collided with the machinery of the state.
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Obama and the Patriot Act
Representation Without Transformation: The Lesson of the Obama Era
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October 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Barack Obama’s presidency was both a triumph of symbolism and a tragedy of structure — a moment when eloquence met empire, and the dream of transformation collided with the machinery of the state.
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Across time, grief has been turned into myth, and myth into division. From Berlin to Moscow to our own streets, martyrdom has been used to escalate violence. Let us resist history’s cycle now.
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“In the Shadow of Tragedy, We Must Choose Peace”
Charlie Kirk’s assassination must not be turned into martyrdom for division.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Across time, grief has been turned into myth, and myth into division. From Berlin to Moscow to our own streets, martyrdom has been used to escalate violence. Let us resist history’s cycle now.
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What if the cowboy you grew up watching was never the whole story? From Black cowboys and Cimarrones to gauchos and vaqueros, the frontier was always multiracial and global. In my latest Substack, I reflect on Art T. Burton’s life’s work and my own memories.
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The Ballad of Art T. Burton: Cowboys, Cimarrones, and the Stories We Never Heard
What if the iconic lone hero on horseback wasn’t white, wasn’t solitary, and wasn’t even uniquely American?
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September 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
What if the cowboy you grew up watching was never the whole story? From Black cowboys and Cimarrones to gauchos and vaqueros, the frontier was always multiracial and global. In my latest Substack, I reflect on Art T. Burton’s life’s work and my own memories.
open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...
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From the West Side of Chicago to the politics of dispossession, this is a personal reflection on how Jim Crow, Zionism, and Apartheid share a blueprint—and why only mass movements have ever stopped them.
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Zionism, Sandwiches, an Ivy Covered Gate and Golda Meir
It started in Chicago’s North Lawndale at a Church that was a Synagogue, a three minute walk from Golda Meir’s house
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June 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
From the West Side of Chicago to the politics of dispossession, this is a personal reflection on how Jim Crow, Zionism, and Apartheid share a blueprint—and why only mass movements have ever stopped them.
open.substack.com/pub/floydweb...
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Juneteenth was granted after George Floyd’s murder—but still no law says cops who shoot unarmed people must face jury trials.
It’s easier to sell us a holiday than to give us justice.
Slave patrols became police.
Don’t celebrate—organize.
It’s easier to sell us a holiday than to give us justice.
Slave patrols became police.
Don’t celebrate—organize.
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Juneteenth was granted after George Floyd’s murder—but still no law says cops who shoot unarmed people must face jury trials.
It’s easier to sell us a holiday than to give us justice.
Slave patrols became police.
Don’t celebrate—organize.
It’s easier to sell us a holiday than to give us justice.
Slave patrols became police.
Don’t celebrate—organize.
I’ll be doing a lecture in FILM aesthetics talking about the film Yeelen/Brightness by Souleymane Cisse April 1st online at 7pm
Register here:
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Register here:
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March 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I’ll be doing a lecture in FILM aesthetics talking about the film Yeelen/Brightness by Souleymane Cisse April 1st online at 7pm
Register here:
uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here:
uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Pin a Black, Mexican, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Philippine, history post to your feeds EVERYDAY. It’s up to us to make our histories and contributions to this country LIVE.
Today, we honor Lt. Col. Lee “Buddy” Archer, decorated member of the BLACK Tuskegee Airmen, Fugg mediocre white hire Hedgebot
Today, we honor Lt. Col. Lee “Buddy” Archer, decorated member of the BLACK Tuskegee Airmen, Fugg mediocre white hire Hedgebot
March 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Pin a Black, Mexican, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, Philippine, history post to your feeds EVERYDAY. It’s up to us to make our histories and contributions to this country LIVE.
Today, we honor Lt. Col. Lee “Buddy” Archer, decorated member of the BLACK Tuskegee Airmen, Fugg mediocre white hire Hedgebot
Today, we honor Lt. Col. Lee “Buddy” Archer, decorated member of the BLACK Tuskegee Airmen, Fugg mediocre white hire Hedgebot
Join us today at Connect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd St, in “Beautiful Downtown Hyde Park” at 3-6:30pm
Black Culture, Soft Power, and the Machinery of Imperialism
African American culture has long been one of the most powerful forces in shaping of the American image abroad.
Black Culture, Soft Power, and the Machinery of Imperialism
African American culture has long been one of the most powerful forces in shaping of the American image abroad.
March 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Join us today at Connect Gallery, 1451 E 53rd St, in “Beautiful Downtown Hyde Park” at 3-6:30pm
Black Culture, Soft Power, and the Machinery of Imperialism
African American culture has long been one of the most powerful forces in shaping of the American image abroad.
Black Culture, Soft Power, and the Machinery of Imperialism
African American culture has long been one of the most powerful forces in shaping of the American image abroad.
Next time some of your young folk say stupid stuff like “we not our ancestors.” Show them this. Milwaukee 1967. We went toe toe, went to jail and some of us died. #resistance
February 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Next time some of your young folk say stupid stuff like “we not our ancestors.” Show them this. Milwaukee 1967. We went toe toe, went to jail and some of us died. #resistance
No matter what, I am leaving TikTok. Red Book is a lot more fun. Those Wiley orientals with their Yellow Peril have done it again!
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👋Last message to TikTok refugees - 小红书
3 亿人的生活经验，都在小红书
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January 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
No matter what, I am leaving TikTok. Red Book is a lot more fun. Those Wiley orientals with their Yellow Peril have done it again!
91 盐栗（粉丝纯享版）发布了一篇小红书笔记，快来看吧！ 😆 gf89kd5Kx5BdeWx 😆 xhslink.com/a/Z3gisdL7ND...
91 盐栗（粉丝纯享版）发布了一篇小红书笔记，快来看吧！ 😆 gf89kd5Kx5BdeWx 😆 xhslink.com/a/Z3gisdL7ND...
Our comrade. Cha Cha Jimenez has passed away today.
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Started in September 23, 1968. He’ll be missed.
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Started in September 23, 1968. He’ll be missed.
January 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Our comrade. Cha Cha Jimenez has passed away today.
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Started in September 23, 1968. He’ll be missed.
José "Cha Cha" Jiménez (born August 8, 1948) is a political activist and the founder of the Young Lords Organization, a Chicago-based street gang that became a civil and human rights organization. Started in September 23, 1968. He’ll be missed.
There’s a #DonOLDsaur coming to the White House, His extinction is imminent. His power is waning, his best absurd days behind him. The hyenas are gathering at the smell of his rotting decline, nipping at his shanks. His gangrenous herd will devour him as they foul the land.
December 24, 2024 at 8:26 AM
There’s a #DonOLDsaur coming to the White House, His extinction is imminent. His power is waning, his best absurd days behind him. The hyenas are gathering at the smell of his rotting decline, nipping at his shanks. His gangrenous herd will devour him as they foul the land.
Oh my! An illegal African immigrant and welfare queen with 12 children by three different women has just stolen a white job.
December 21, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Oh my! An illegal African immigrant and welfare queen with 12 children by three different women has just stolen a white job.
I nominate Yosemite Sam for head of national defense. It’s no more absurd than anyone else who’s been chosen. #dafookreygwaninamurkha
December 3, 2024 at 12:40 PM
I nominate Yosemite Sam for head of national defense. It’s no more absurd than anyone else who’s been chosen. #dafookreygwaninamurkha
Does anybody know what time the UFO sky battle/invasion starts today. I’m anxious to find out if this is entertainment or conspiracy theories rather than fact. I admit, it is a great distraction. Will this be the day the earth got bass?
December 3, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Does anybody know what time the UFO sky battle/invasion starts today. I’m anxious to find out if this is entertainment or conspiracy theories rather than fact. I admit, it is a great distraction. Will this be the day the earth got bass?
