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This past week has provided me clarity in terms of Kwame Ture's not oft-quoted phrase. I hope it provides some perspective in a world bent on anti-Black ahistoricism. Thank you for reading.
‘History does not repeat itself…Nothing Can.’
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when kamala runs for president in 2024 i hope everyone remembers what she said to guatemalans during the middle of a pandemic
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Obama picking McCain over Aretha is a metaphor for his whole political career tbh.
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No ICU beds in the Blackest state in this country and “free thinkers” are obsessed with microchips lmao
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Sorry. Voting in this moment ESPECIALLY is not revolutionary. I don't care what anyone says. Vote or not vote or whatever but telling folks to vote as if you can vote away the white supremacy embedded in this nation-state is very cowardly and insulting.
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Thinking about how MLK came up to Chicago, lived on the west side for a while, participated in a March in Cicero and those racists threw bricks and bottles at him. He said “I have never seen, even in Mississippi and Alabama, mobs as hateful as I’ve seen here in Chicago.”
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Is the virus response "mismanaged" or is this necropolitics? I just think that the language in this instance matters. I truly think most things we think are mistakes are not actually "mistakes."
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I’ll also say — the United States does not give a fuck about any genocides.
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It be the people saying “violence is never the answer ❤️“ making excuses for the us bombing foreign countries
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Black elites “protecting” each other isn’t racial solidarity holy shit
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I think “class reductionist” is too polite a term for the white “communist” shenanigans I’ve seen on here
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Transphobia is not often about ignorance, it’s usually about (maintaining/obtaining) power.
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Lmao what is hard to understand about this tweet? Political commitments etc that’s why it’s a metaphor. His so called political commitments have been put before symbolic gestures to the Black community throughout his career.
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A lot of Twitter commentary is “y’all be like x but then do y” and it don’t even be the same groups 😭
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Quoting Reagan??? Honey.
“Compassionate treatment at the border....President Obama understood this.” 🙄
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I feel like BLACK people used to use “woke” somewhat tongue in cheek, like slightly ironically. And like most things that the anti-Black mainstream takes up, it got twisted up to create whole reactionary industries dedicated to maintaining the status quo
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It’s funny to me that people think that tweet is me being mad. That’s probably the most calm I’ve ever been composing a tweet besides when I tweet about astrology.
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the world will remember how much of the black aspiring bourgeoise in the west prioritized travel and luxury over solidarity with communities in the global south during a pandemic :/
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Black people who buy into conspiracy theories about Jewish people are not serious about liberation.
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i find that this attachment to "luxury lifestyle" is an attempt to separate oneself from the "doomed" masses (wretched of the earth if you will)
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remembering that thread about how the Black Panthers bullied all these soul musical artists to be conscious in their music and now i can't unhear it 😭 they really did that
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Reactions to this tweet are unfortunately also a metaphor.
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Why a Black people “gotta” die for things to change and then they don’t really change for the better anyway?
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And used fucking chattel slaves to clear and cultivate the goddamn land. There is no redeeming the United States.
Indigenous land stolen by American settlers. The United States was built on genocide
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and obviously there's slippage. like the fact that something could be "mismanaged" is also necropolitical (who lives and who dies). but i think we need to be very specific that who has died and who has survived during this pandemic is not "accidental"
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Any “interest” the United States has in other countries and regions is 99% imperial.
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i'm reading about divorce and it's pretty funny that there's this idea that in cisheterosexual divorces, the women squeeze their ex-spouses dry but the statistics show that divorced women are twice as likely to live in poverty as married women and divorced men
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this makes me think a lot about hurricane katrina, and the way a lot of people still talk about it.
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Hey y’all. My little cousin is missing. Please Chicago area people let me know if you have any info.
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the way we are *trained* to talk about these things. you can obviously make similar arguments for the 2010 haitian earthquake, flint water crisis...modernity.
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@toystory_609
That’s why I said it’s a metaphor. He always has some so called political commitments that come before the Black community that he just can’t get out of.
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it's the way white people are always exhuming dead Black radicals for their own purposes....
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perhaps "mismanagement" does capture the intentional but I think the term is too soft
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The sooner you realize that democrats are not simply ineffectual and incompetent but in fact co-conspirators with republicans (nazis) the better
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The anti-blackness in umar and this tweet aside....The idea of “rootedness” is fundamentally problematic. I think we just need to let it go. We are not trees.
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"only poor people hate capitalism" is such an odd thing to say and it's like yeah duh because capitalism by definition does not benefit poor people. of course rich people like and wish to maintain capitalism.
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Black southerners (and their descendants) really make the best Mac and Cheese and it’s not close...
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whew that "change from the inside" thing really don't work even on the off chance you come in with the best intentions, those systems are meant to corrupt and disillusion.
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I do actually feel a grief over this, even though I hate snow and cold now. I used to love winter time because there was something so magical about waking up and the whole world was covered in snow. I have no idea how often that will even happen for next gen.
i watched home alone over the weekend and what stuck out to me most was, remember snow? remember we used to play in the snow this time of the year? i miss snow. it’s like 60 degrees in the northeast in december now.
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I think if you’re going to say “if Biden doesn’t win, Trump will do xyz fascism thing” you need to make a legitimate good faith effort to show how having Biden in office has prevented or minimized fascism.
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The fact that someone outside the United States can see this better than an someone inside it is...a testament to the delusion
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Whenever the US tries to “integrate” or “honor” Black radicals it’s for the empire’s own benefit or maintenance. I sincerely doubt that Harriet Tubman would want her face in place of Andrew Jackson on a dollar 💸 .
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I don’t like American flag iconography, Black American or not. You’re a loser if you’re defending the use of it.
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People simply do not want to be from Africa, because of anti-black and anti-African ideas about the continent and it’s very obvious from the glee people have in sharing “actually we’re the real indigenous American 😎”
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So grim that the very way that the capitalist class tried to co-opt Black Power was by turning it into Black Capitalism is literally happening now with the “support Black businesses” thing in response to BLM.
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Why would this be something that millionaires who’ve never been to prison need to deliberate on? What the fuck.
The rise of inmates on social media is at an all-time high. Is justice really being served if prisoners are allowed to entertain millions from behind bars?
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Like people keep making those tweets like “last summer yall said abolish the police and now y’all doing x” and I’m like....are y’all sure those are even the same groups?
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Mind you, I know some really special people who are actively fighting against voter suppression 365. Those folks are excluded. I’m talking about people who, in these moments, literally quip vote as if it’s a panacea for anti-Blackness.
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I just unfollowed three celebrities for posting that silly ass “primaries in these states” posts. Like I love larenz Tate and kerry Washington but I will not put up with the foolishness.
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it's not okay. but the luxury lifestyle is so appealing to people right now because the government has made it completely clear that it doesn't care about "ordinary people" thus incentivizing people to separate themselves from that amorphous group.
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the pandemic has done, in my opinion, even more damage on pan-africanist diasporic politics. so many reasons why but the above reason is a major piece.
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it's kinda interesting how this fact check regime really about to destroy all the Black inside jokes on twitter
Oxtail is extremely poisonous. When cut from the ox, a small sack of toxic fluid is released throughout the tail. It must be thoroughly cooked for 12 days and nights before consumption. Even the fumes released during cooking is extremely deadly.
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if you can somehow make it clear to the prevailing systems that you're not like *those people* maybe you can survive, maybe you can be treated better, maybe they'll be shown some mercy
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Replacing these celebrities with organizers and other folks actually committed to Black liberation so hit me up on Instagram at @/itmovesittalksitwinks
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Lmao you can tell the tweet was supposed to be a “started from the bottom now we here” kinda thing and all the replies are about how he’s always been rich bc his father stole resources from Africa 😂😭
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It’s actually wild that Corinne Bailey Rae erasure is ostensibly happening bc literally there would be none of the light skinned british songbirds without her lmao (Ella, Jorja, Mahalia)
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@ReelingThespian
It’s only a matter of Time before someone comes up in this tweet defending the death penalty....
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I’m getting tired of comparing presidents bc it feels unproductive. It literally does not matter if someone goes in well intentioned with progressive politics etc. the office is anti-Black and colonial by it’s very nature. *THATS* why there are no good presidents.
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Never ceases to fascinate me how much room for growth is given to powerful people by regular people.
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@ReignOfApril
this is actually grossly belittling and shows just how insular identity politics can make our world view. but okay
#woke
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Hashtag vote no bitch hashtag open your purse. Sick of the nonsense.
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Kerry Washington celebrating Colin Powell's life after she subjected us to her "vote vote like your life depends on it" campaign to get rid of trump.........the jokes really write themselves
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We in the US need to be worrying about how the government to which we pay taxes enacts neocolonial violence on the continent of Africa. It has for the longest but its newest iteration? AFRICOM. Pan-African solidarity is needed now more than ever
#ShutdownAFRICOM
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I still think it’s extremely embarrassing for Black Americans to be clinging to a collapsing nation state…we deserve much better than this place. We are better.
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Everyone quote tweeting this with "well actually" are showing their anti-indigenous, anti-Black asses but *also* no matter how you square it, "homelessness" is directly linked to common law conceptions of (private) property and labor.
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Cranes in the sky by solange really hit different when you FLYING with the cranes in the sky amirite
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Something else that John Lewis who was brutalized while protesting, passes on the same day that a young Black girl gets her teeth knocked out by Chicago police while protesting.
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“The work” definitely doesn’t include watching YouTube videos about how Jewish people control all media, or sharing graphics made by god knows who about the new world order or whatever the fuck.
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Once again, the colorism convo comes back to desirability and romantic/sexual relationships. Dark skinned folx are affected by colorism in other ways too, particular in the job market, education and the legal system.
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@_theghettomonk
Yeah curious as to what a show like snl, that was wack anyway, is gonna do now 😂
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To address homelessness, state and local governments should enforce eminent domain against any for profit-private property that has been unoccupied for 2+ years and use it for public housing.
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People be like “everyone has bills to pay” to justify selling out your own people and the “bills” be for luxury vacations and private schools most don’t have access to 😭
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Tbh that clip of the colors peng black girls remix where it fades out enny and just shows jorja is very colorist and I hate celebrity culture bc her verse wasn’t even good for y’all to be hyping it and erasing the main artist.
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Non-Blacks please do not engage with these tweets. Thank you.
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So there’s this thing called neoliberalism....
People really Trying to blame capitalism for the Gulf of Mexico fire only to find out it was caused by a state owned company🤣😂…. I’m never deleting this app lol
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Like that’s cute and fun or whatever but people always gotta take things too far 😭
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And it definitely doesn’t include uncritically following a Black millionaire who literally also hates his own people and has made it known he’s out for himself only.
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Tbh after this week especially we as a Black community really need to interrogate the anti-south ideas we’ve been fed and I think it’s particularly bad for those of us 2 or more generations away from the south.
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See the problem is, petit bourgeois is technically exploited under capitalism along with the proletariat. But petit bourgeois will never wage a whole scale revolution against capitalism; they will get what they want and continue exploiting their workers.
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Not the right takeaway, please go finish reading Malcolm X or something.
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It’s actually so funny that people don’t understand the incredibly close relationship between violence and language. People love acting like words are merely words that have no material impact.
Being called a racial slur isn’t justification for physical altercation/assault. Black people specifically need to understand this.
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This is eugenics talk fyi
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cw: transphobia
people don't see how transphobia as violent (and manifests as physical violences) towards trans folks because cis people generally consider trans people to be antagonists of cis people and therefore incapable of being victims
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lmao sorry i cant take the instagram accounts seriously anymore ..... if y'all wanna unfollow me go ahead but how you talking about "abolish the system that killed breonna taylor" and praising rbg? it's very strange.
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Mmm.....i don’t think non-blacks should be voting on this or asking this.
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At Princeton, I've heard multiple people say straight up or imply that Africa never contributed anything valuable to society
#NotJustUVa
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i think part of the myth comes from the figure of the "gold digger" which is not only misogynistic but is majorly informed by celebrity culture where millions of dollars are on the line during divorces
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and that's really it....like it's either revolution or extinction. and extinction will happen/is happening to the most disadvantaged of us first.
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I’m so tired of people who think having Black partners is in and of itself radical. I see it happening a lot with Black cishet men in elite spaces trying to get brownie points for being with Black women (bonus points of they’re dark skinned). Yuck.
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What's happening with locs is what happened to the natural hair movement a few years ago and people are somehow still responding with "let people do what they want with their hair." Meanwhile there is stigma against those who aren't straightening edges, have curly ends, etc.
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