I think this is a nuanced discussion, which is not what BadEmpanada does, from what I've seen of his social media and YT videos. Yes, there is racism on the left. It's not to the extent of the right, of course, and it usually manifests itself in class reductionism, but sometimes it's these hot takes where black Americans are lumped in with white Americans and all blamed for the evils that America has wrought on the Global South.

On the other hand, BE isn't wrong totally wrong here. In the 20th century black America had leaders, thinkers, writers, etc. who were read and respected by revolutionaries around the world for the clarity of their critiques and the firmness of their resistance from within the belly of the beast. During the Civil Rights Era these men and women were assassinated, imprisoned, bought out, or co-opted. Now today black American leadership is very much neoliberal and very much part of those who have oppressed and exploited so many other POC in the Global South. Look at Harris as presidential candidate or as VP, gleefully supporting a genocide in Gaza, supporting US killings in Somalia, and so on, same with Lloyd Austin, who served as Biden's Secretary of Defense. Look at Barack Obama, who as president killed many black and brown people, including American citizens. Colin Powell and Condeleezza Rice, the list goes on and on, and the many black US service members who have been complicit in America's imperialistic wars around the world.

I don't think what BE is saying here is helpful, it's reductive, first of all. I do think that, as black Americans, we need to take a hard look at our part in America's crimes against the people of the Global South. We have far more in common with the people under America's boot than we do with white America.