Indigenous Australians too. Their government allows a white South African to come and be their anti-semitism envoy but they rejected a proposal to have an indigenous voice in parliament
One major thing I’ve had to unpack and am still learning how to keep incorporating in my daily life is that it isn’t simply enough to not be racist or anti-Black.
If the Black community is (rightfully) boycotting Asian businesses as a result of the Cyrus Carmack-Belton murder trial results, what that should tell you as Asians is NOT “These people are racist against us,” but that we are not loud enough in our actions for Black people.
Instead of just whining “It’s not all of us!” SHOW that it isn’t all of us.
Support Black businesses, donate to Black organizations and funds. If you have a business in Black communities, be a part of that community.
We need to be louder and prouder of our alliance and solidarity with Black people. (Obviously this goes for our unity with all oppressed peoples, but—) we can’t keep saying we’ll only watch out for our own communities and let others worry about their own.
Collectively, all oppressed peoples can have more power than white supremacy, but we must first unite under the simple understanding that we are all fighting white supremacy everyday.
Asian-Americans have many of the rights we have today because of the struggles of Black and Brown people in this country before us. And while we can acknowledge that there have been Asians standing alongside them for their battles, we must also accept that white supremacy
has actively sown division between Asians and Black and Indigenous peoples, and far too many people in our communities either passively accept or enthusiastically embrace that proximity to whiteness that comes at the cost of others.
Recognizing the anti-Black rhetoric I grew up with was a hard pill to swallow. Becoming comfortable with dismantling that anti-Blackness in myself AND my loved ones has been an uncomfortable pill to swallow.
We need to have these hard conversations within our communities —
as well as visibly and tangibly show our support to Black people.
I’m not perfect, I’m not an activist. I struggle with these concepts all the time.
But I would always rather worry that I am not doing enough to be an ally than to think I’ve done enough and deserve credit.
The same way today many Native Americans cannot speak their Native tongues because the White racist ✝️beat it out of them at boarding schools,Even up to the 1960's as this Man says 🤔Not to mention Black American Indians were Enslaved and reclassified as Colored and Negro by Whites.
Libs: "AmeriKKKa is devolving into Fascism"...
There hasn't been a single second that AmeriKKKa has existed that it wasn't fascist. AmeriKKKa is a settler colonial project built on genocide, apartheid, & slavery.
AmeriKKKa's greatest exports are endless violence & suffering.
@notronmexicuh 💯The US is a settler colonial project & an Empire project (extending exploitation, expropriation, gen*cide, apartheid globally) from the OUTSET—if only USians studied their own historical process, material reality, recorded docs, empirical evidence etc…but ‘denial & disavowal’
This is patently false. A Black nation in the South was reality thanks to marronage & a Black-Seminole alliance, not a Soviet theory. Starting in the 17th century escaped slaves fled southeast & established maroon communities. They did more than simply get along with locals.
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@northwoods_memo@sinceretheory I don't think you know anything about Métis to warrant you invoking Us in conversations pretty obviously JUST to shut up Black critiques of your ''essays''. 👁👃👁
If anything the Soviets not having a good understanding of the nationalities of North America was detrimental to them embracing the Black Belt Thesis or organizing such a reality. Let alone their attachment (and Lenin’s) to an American nationality as something to be organized
The Soviets and the Comintern lagged behind Black nationalists and radicals in the US but because these Black radicals saw the Soviet Union as an inspiration, they were forced to develop this line