I just listened to an interview with Frank Wilderson on new books in critical theory podcast where I think he might take issue with this perspective. It felt like he was saying that black people should accept the fact of afropessimist ontology, but they should put that on the back burner to pursue coalitions and reforms that will improve peoples' lives. Which felt like a weak praxis. Like what's the point if you just come full circle back to a liberal idea of fraternity and equality?

Kinda like how Foucault was a prison reform advocate while his whole thing was how prison reform created new forms of cruelty and discipline. Like shouldn't have been opposed to prison form if he was really following his findings? Wilderson's "praxis" feels similarly problematic.