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You can have all the education. You can be "right" about everything. But until you organize with real people in real communities, and engage with all the complexities - you'll never fully understand our people's needs and how to effectively fulfill them.
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Police have murdered Black ppl in America with few repercussions since the beginning. Meet Walter Francis White. He was a Black man with blond hair and blue eyes, parents born into slavery. In 1920, he used his lightskin to infiltrate KKK meetings. Guess who was there?
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My six year old twins almost purchased close to $800 worth of snacks using my Instacart app. 🫠
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“The Africans sold us” narrative is one of the greatest tools of anti-Black propaganda to ever exist. 🧵
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When he was sworn in as sheriff’s deputy, Walter Francis White was told, “Now you can go kill any Negro you see and the law will be behind you.” Even with 10 yrs worth of evidence with photos, covering 41 lynchings and 8 race riots - there were no convictions.
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🗣 THE POLICE WERE THERE! They were so convinced he was a white man that they swore him in as a sheriff’s deputy in Oklahoma. But secretly, he was investigating lynchings for the NAACP.
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They almost completed the purchase but couldn’t figure out the last few steps. I serve a living God!
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Cyrus Carmack-Belton, a 14-year old Black boy in South Carolina was shot to death yesterday by gas station owner Rick Chow over a bottle of water he “thought” he was stealing. Cyrus wasn’t stealing but even if he was, a bottle of water is no reason to take a child’s life!
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The “Africans sold us narrative” ignores the complexities of an extremely diverse continent. The fact that we can understand the various European wars, conflicts, histories, and political agendas but for some reason can’t comprehend this when it comes to Africa is dehumanizing.
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It’s always a good time to remember the false borders in Africa created by Europeans and how many Africans are descendants of people that were displaced or relocated.
this ghanaian guy on tiktok did a DNA test and found out he was actually 64% nigerian… looool yeah i’m never doing a DNA test… next thing you know i’m from madagascar.. like ?? 💀
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First, it’s flawed because it reduces hundreds of different African kingdoms and ethnicities to “one group” and makes it seem like they all rounded us up and waved bye bye at the shores. People lost their families. People were taking over ships and setting folks free.
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I am once again begging people to think critically about global Black history. We (Black Americans) are not the only Black people that were enslaved and oppressed. Africans were enslaved, displaced, and colonized on the continent and throughout the Diaspora.
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I keep telling y’all to STOP falling for the “Africans sold us” narrative because it only leads back to one thing - the minimization of reparations because Europeans use this simplistic narrative to deny responsibility. They will say “you did it to yourselves”
CNN’s
@DonLemon
tells royal commentator Hilary Fordwich the royal family should pay reparations — immediately regrets it
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He doesn’t know African American history. He doesn’t know Nigerian history. He doesn’t know Black history period. Why is he there speaking for any of us?
What happens when a black and a Jew come together to talk antisemitism
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*African history deserves complexity.* Refusing to recognize these complex histories and minimizing them denies the humanity of our ancestors and repeats the anti-Black, white supremacist belief that we are innately evil and weak, in need of European salvation.
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On one hand African ancestors are depicted as a one group of brutal beasts selling everyone in sight. On the other hand they’re depicted as docile poor souls shipped off with no Africans fighting back or trying to save them. All falsehoods.
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More info on White:
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Some of the same kingdoms folks point out for selling slaves, also fought against the slave trade and lost loved ones. The Kingdom of Kongo is an example. They had internal conflicts over the trade. Some AAs are Kongolese descendants, they led the Stono Rebellion in SC.
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Also, not everyone left on the continent is a descendant of slave traders. This a gross and harmful generalization not grounded in history or reality. Most folks had no control over the trade and were victims themselves. Many today are also descendants of enslaved people.
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And while we were brutally enslaved in the Americas, many of these African kingdoms and empires that we derive from (that also participated in the slave trade) were being colonized and enslaved by the same Europeans that brought us to the Americas.
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Every time “the Africans sold us narrative” is raised it’s used back against us to deny reparations. It’s already happening in the U.S. and UK. Western Conservatives stay on script saying that we were the first enslavers and “African Americans were the first slave owners”…
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There are ways to have discussions about accountability and healing. But many discussions happening now are rooted in falsehoods, generalizations, bigotry, and Afrophobia. We can tell the whole story without letting ourselves be used in the service of white supremacy.
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“…so why are they owed reparations?” Mark my words. It’s happening. So please approach this topic with clarity and care. Otherwise it’s just another tool for ahistorical anti-Black propaganda that benefits none of us.
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I meant to say consequences in the beginning instead of repercussions but you get my point.
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Denying the Transatlantic Slave Trade and pretending to be Native American won’t get you reparations.
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Yoruba spirituality predates the existence of Nigeria. And many descendants exist across the Diaspora. So yes, many non-Nigerians, including African Americans know more than you think. The assumption that African deities can’t transcend European created borders always baffles me.
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Black sailors 103 years ago. LMAO, we don't change!
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Wow this really took off! Thanks for reading and sharing. Please support my nonprofit . We share cultural information, stories, and resources that uplift the collective freedom of Black communities, while correcting cultural misinformation.
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No. I do not descend from “slavery.” I descend from people. I descend from Africans that were free, maroon, and enslaved in the U.S. One of the harms of chattel slavery was the ethnic erasure and dehumanization of our ancestors. They were African people. I descend from them.
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I’m begging folks to read ONE book and watch one documentary about African American history that wasn’t created by a YouTube influencer. And please look up Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, Afro-Puerto Rican historian and preserver of Black history in America.
If the African American museum opens up a
#LATINX
exhibit or features any Latin history, I personally will organize a protest right in front of the museum.
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…and deny their entire orchestrated campaign to pit African kingdoms against each other, agitate/create conflicts, supply guns creating the slave gun cycle, building ships and taking Africans to their colonies in the Americas, and putting us through centuries of chattel slavery.
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People are literally hunting Black children. It has to stop. Rest In Peace, Cyrus. You didn’t deserve this. No one deserves this.
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Stop asking “why didn’t they save us” like everyone else was relaxing and drinking martinis. And before commenting on the issue of saving please at least look at the history and while we’re at it - Haiti, despite all the hell they went through did try to save Black Americans.
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Dr. Cornell West was pivotal in helping to legitimize the AD*S movement. He purposely spread divisive, ahistorical rhetoric about the African Diaspora by minimizing slavery and its vestiges in the Caribbean.
Cornell West has been an unserious and unprincipled person for quite some time now. Every so often he dupes us into acting like he is mobilizing behind a purpose but it is all self-preserving ego.
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“The Africans sold us.” My sister, we are the Africans. There was no “one” group selling. It was multiple kingdoms and ethnic groups that participated and were also sold into slavery. African Americans are descendants of enslaved Africans and slave traders too.
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The way this is going viral and isn’t true at all is sending me.
Escaping slaves used to throw balls of fried cornmeal out to distract the hound dogs from tracking them. The hound dogs would stop barking and start eating. This is where the word hush puppies came from.
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My daddy called me from Columbia and said it feels like 1965 all over again.
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The Africans sold us narrative is a trick bag and too many people keep falling for it. It gets us no where and aids to white supremacist tools for shifting blaming back onto victims.
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The Black community in Columbia, SC is protesting outside the gas station to get it shut down.
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Also, the assumption that all Africans “know where they come from” as opposed to folks in the Diaspora is false and historical erasure of displacement on the continent.
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So when people say
#DefundThePolice
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#AbolishThePolice
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The pre-cursor to anti-Blackness is Anti-Africanity. That’s what’s on display here. It starts with blaming Africans and leads back to blaming the Diaspora. They’re gonna treat the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with the same lens flawed and ignorant lens as “black-on-black crime.”
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It’s Hoodoo Heritage Month & Gullah Geechee Heritage Month. Today, let’s remember the first group of enslaved Africans brought to what became the USA. In 1526, the Spanish brought a group of enslaved Africans to a colony in the SC region. But these courageous ancestors revolted.
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1. Breonna Taylor was murdered in her sleep by police.
2. NONE have been arrested for it. Instead, police heavily monitor & abuse protesters.
3. THEN protesters are shot in Jefferson Square Park and the response is more ineffective police in riot gear???!!! GTFOH
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@PeoplesOracle
@Instacart
Apparently, they were sitting here visualizing and making plans with zero doubt in their minds 😭
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Africans, Jamaicans, African Americans - We're being murdered, exploited, and abused around the world. Let's not use our energy to attack each other over a British woman's hairdo.
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“The Africans don’t like us” is one of the dumbest statements. How do you know over one billion people, most of whom you’ve never met, don’t like you? It’s one thing to acknowledge cultural differences but to completely ignore cultural and historical bonds is where you lose me.
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Anyways, here’s Patti LaBelle the “Godmother of Soul” with Celia Cruz the “Queen of Salsa.” Vibes 🔥🔥🔥
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“Pan Africanism is delusional. I know because I am an ex- pan Africanist.”
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She knows damn well there was a demand that turned into a threat. If you don’t supply, you may become the “supply” yourself.
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I love that Haitians are trending right now. If you need an ancestral guide for revolution - look to Haiti. After freeing themselves, they offered citizenship to all Black ppl. In David Walker's Appeal, he suggested that Black Americans "go to our brethren, the Haytians."
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A Black man was murdered by a treacherous system that has hunted down our loved ones for centuries and Jason Whitlock blames Black single mothers. Tariq Nasheed tries to blame Black immigrants. Both are servants of white supremacy. Too weak to fight the system…
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I know you not saying Haiti, the “first Black Republic” isn’t Black? Upon independence Haiti declared itself BLACK and said all Black people that reach its borders would be free. Haiti even paid money for Black Americans to be freed to come to Haiti.
That Africans, Jamaicans, Dominicans, Haitians etc are BLACK.
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Yall gotta start adding class analysis to these takes because in Black America we have Candace Owens, Herschel Walker and Mark Robinson - the Black Lt Governor of North Carolina that literally said Black Americans owe reparations for slavery. Black sellouts are international.
Emmanuel Acho has always given me “I’m Nigerian therefore I’m better than you formerly enslaved niggas” vibes.
He is definitely one of them.
Van Lathan calling him an “emotional butler for white people” was spot on!
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It’s way too easy to get us to participate in Diaspora Wars.
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Distancing yourself from your African ancestry won’t get you reparations.
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If you are a descendant of enslaved Africans and you currently live in Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota - please apply! The deadline is July 28th.
Descendants of enslaved Africans to receive $50 million as part of wealth-building initiative - Application deadline July 28, 2023. 800 Black residents of Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota will receive $50,000 grants over the next eight years.
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Distance makes it easy to see slavery from one perspective. But listening to Edo elders from Benin Kingdom talk about how some of their ancestors were snatched never to be seen again, and seeing the tears come to their eyes, made me remember how the slave trade harmed all of us.
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I absolutely refuse to believe Twitter is real after this…
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Akon has a trash take but there are ways to criticize him with out generalizing an entire continent. Cause who is “they” ? Akon is a multimillionaire celebrity, not a representative for all of Africa just like Kanye doesn’t represent the Diaspora and Black America.
It always comes back to shitting on Black Americans, especially after they’ve made millions imitating Black Americans.
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If billionaires wanted to invest in BCU, they would do it - Ed Reed or not. I doubt this ever happened but if they suddenly decided to decline support “over him” - they never cared at all. HBCUs are not celebrity pet projects. They are institutions in need of long term support.
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I should also add that Walter Francis White graduated from Atlanta University which is called Clark Atlanta University now. So he’s HBCU history too. ✊🏾
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Listen! If yall think the Walter Francis White story is wild. Here's one to end the "we are not our ancestors" foolishness. Meet Lewis Hayden - the first Black man to say, "I'll blow this MF up!" Hayden escaped from slavery in Kentucky after his wife and son were sold away.
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Conservatives are openly pushing a Black “replacement theory” trying to make African Americans join their anti- Black immigration fight. It’s been working among some. I warned that this is the goal of many online “diaspora wars.” Here it is in plain sight.
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Attacking Black immigrants won’t get you reparations.
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Plantations are considered bougie because Southern yts minimize the horrors of slavery, considering it a natural backdrop to old southern luxury and sophistication. For us plantations were crime scenes, for them plantations represent the heights of southern charm and elegance.
Can somebody explain the fascination with the word Plantation? Why is it considered bougie? Why is it used at all? Have you noticed that developers don't name things after concentration camps? For example, I've never seen a Auschwitz Estates or a Bergan-Belsen Manor. Can we stop?
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Erasing Afro-Latino history also erases African American history. Some folks have been fully indoctrinated by online xenophobia based on misinformation and flawed ahistorical narratives. These rigid attempts to disconnect the Diaspora don’t work bc they are based on ignorance.
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After watching Black women holding their babies be thrown off trains and left in the cold in Ukraine, I’m not in the least bit surprised. The racism was on full display and a lot of people made excuses for it, saying they were “prioritizing their citizens.” What’s the excuse now?
Just over 100,000 Ukrainians have sought refuge in the UK
But not all of them have found it easy to settle into a country where the ethnic diversity and cultural values are very different from Ukraine.
@DarshnaSoni
reports.
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I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy in October. He’s about to turn two months old. I love this boy soooo much. I think I’m done now.
#thelastone
❤️❤️❤️
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If your Black liberation ain’t global, it’s not Black liberation.
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Erasing Black history won’t get you reparations.
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Calling ourselves aboriginal, ADOS, FBA, Freedmen, the lost tribe of Israel etc won’t get us reparations. These terms won’t make America care more.
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The key point to remember is that African elites dictated and were often coerced into participating, regular ppl were not beneficiaries. And they were not the architects of the Transatlantic slave trade or chattel slavery, that was Europeans. Africans also fought against slavery.
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Referring to descendants of African hostages that were uprooted, enslaved, raped, and murdered as merely an “aesthetic” and “fetishizing Africa” for returning to homelands and attempting to reconnect is harmful reductionism - even in conversations about celebrities.
i really dislike how American celebrities portray Africa as this fetishized land that serves as nothing more than an aesthetic backdrop for them in the face of their own internal conflict or whatever journey they are currently undergoing.
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I’m really interested in what folks think African Americans win by erasing all traces or acknowledgement of our African Heritage. What’s exactly the prize for this?
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Beloved, one light skinned person in your family doesn’t mean you’re not of African descent. All African Americans can point to at least one ancestor that look like this. Guess why? What happened to our foremothers during slavery? Your problem is internalized anti-blackness.
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Understanding ADOS: The Movement to Hijack Black Identity and Weaken Black Unity
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The British “quest to end slavery” was PR for their murderous expansion of colonialism. During this time they enslaved, detained, tortured, and murdered Africans across the continent in the late 1800s-1900s in the name of Empire. They did not end slavery, they renamed it.
Almost everywhere on Earth had slavery for thousands of years and some places still do.
The drive to end slavery on a worldwide basis was spearheaded by Britain in the early 1800’s.
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Join my mailing list for more info on Pan Africanism and Black history:
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Normalize Black oral history. Many of our ancestors were shut out from the systems that publish books & articles used as sources. There is knowledge & wisdom outside of those pages that our elders possess as living libraries. Respect their words. Listen to them, learn from them.
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Also, there are still descendants of enslaved Africans living on the continent. So how are the enslaved still on the continent also selling us? This history is complex but I don’t blame folks for the confusion bc we certainly were not taught most of this in schools…on purpose.
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Sigh. Internalized afrophobia has ppl twisting and turning, searching for any glimmer of hope to not be of African descent. Our ancestors purchased land and it was taken away due to racism. That’s it. Regardless of how much land we owned or didn’t own, we still came from Africa.
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@Omalicha_Ego
Maybe there is a misunderstanding. What I’m saying is referring to the comment on Nigerian spirituality as if the borders determine the existence of the ethnic groups and not acknowledging them predating the borders and the fact that descendants exist around the world.
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You see all this talent? The next next time Hollywood claims they couldn't find blk ppl for roles know that it's a bold faced lie!
#TheWiz
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Resist pipe dreams, conspiracy theories, and divisive internet “influencers.” They feed you lies and make money from your emotions. They will get you no where.
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Black people, sometimes we believe the worst lies about ourselves and denigrate our own history. Christianity is not more civilized than African traditional religions. Millions of African ppl on the continent and throughout the Diaspora were killed under Christian-led oppression.
Lmaoo
My ancestors were savages that spared no one. Not even their in-laws. Anyone who crossed them was beheaded. It's literally in our oriki.
Why would I want to look like whatever God sponsored such wickedness?
You think Osun is all love and light and Yemoja is all smiles?
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Part of the continued harms of chattel slavery is making us think we’re not good enough, like we have to prove our value, our uniqueness - like we have to show America how “special” we are. But I promise we don’t have to. We don’t have to be Super Negros™️ in order to matter.
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They pushing this same xenophobic mess with ADOS/FBA. We’ve been through 400 yrs of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and institutional racism but they’re convinced Black immigrants (the smallest group of immigrants allowed in America) are the problem. Smh
🇿🇦 "I hate foreigners and the government is doing nothing."
#BBCAfricaEye
investigates the rise of xenophobia in South Africa and the violent targeting of migrants.
🎥 Watch the full film, "Fear and Loathing in South Africa" here:
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The Diaspora deserves safe spaces for much needed intercommunity conversations. Unfortunately, Twitter will never be that space.
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Pan Africanism or perish. Handkerchief heads can’t relate. ☺️
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If your “Black Agenda” ain’t global, it’s just a wish list.
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The only way we get reparations is through a unified sustained movement grounded in persistence and truth.
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The YT savior complex to revisionist history pipeline is a helluva drug. How do you “wage a war against slavery” while still enslaving ppl, colonizing, stealing land, torturing ppl, taking their resources and putting them in concentration camps?
When Great Britain waged war against slavery despite it being the global norm.
A thread 🧵🇬🇧
The uncomfortable truth is that the great evil of slavery, practised across all cultures, races and continents, was universal across history.
(Sources are cited at the end.)
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@TheeAuthoress
@Instacart
Nah they sent two 30 count boxes though. So 60 pouches. Way more than enough. I’m glad it wasn’t actually 35 boxes. Lol
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I watched a video where a Black woman claimed to be “American Indian” and completely denied her African ancestry. Yet she wants reparations, while also denying the genocide of Native American and African people. This is where we are right now with Black history in digital spaces.
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This is a beautiful thread on appreciating Black American culture. Turn this up! I just want to add that Afro-Caribbean ppl were also part of the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights, & Black Power Movements. They were in smaller numbers but they were there. Pan African solidarity ✊🏾
As a first generation Haitian- American I hate seeing black American slander. Black American culture is one of the most copied & influential cultures on the planet. And other black immigrants living in the U.S should recognize we were not marching on the front lines here
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