Maybe I’m too woke, but I find Drake using Palestine as a gotcha in a rap beef disgusting. It’s a fucking genocide. Entire family lineages are gone. Women, children and men were tortured; some were raped! To me, that’s nasty work.
These back to back Black femicide stories are devastating. Because misogyny becomes worse and more violent with economic stress, the continual worsening of the economy will only put more Black women in danger
These men will never be MY revolutionaries.
That is why Lumumba could fight the Belgians for a free Congo during the day and go home at night and r*pe Pauline Opango.
That is why Nelson Mandela could fight the apartheid state in South Africa and go home in the evening and b*at Evelyn Mandela.
That is why Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o could beautifully and accurately write about decolonizing the mind and then turn around and terr*rise Nyambura wa Ngũgĩ and their children.
And as an African queer woman, I say this firmly: we will be free together, or we will d*e together. I would rather perish fighting the white man and YOU than believe that my liberation is secondary to yours or that of the so-called “Black collective,” who never prioritise anyone but Black patriarchy.
How long before state troopers, sheriffs, local police, and more just start opening fire on crowds of people since they see their ICE brethren being completely shielded from any investigation or accountability.
Ive held the hands of women who were incarcerated and had been raped by guards who werent even far away. My mother was murdered by the prison system. 600 women are suing the government for illegal sterilizations while they were incarcerated.
One white woman dies and laws change. I have enough nuanced thought to weep for both. But damn do I weep for the lack of humanity for the rest of the women harmed by police.
I do not mourn a colonial future’s lack of existence. I mourn what colonialism has stolen from our past present and future. Colonialism has nothing to offer me or a humane and livable future.
White women so funny. They can call someone an inspiration, write songs in their honor and then tell us they didn’t know shit about said persons life or deviances. Girl, fuck you!