@darealmackoy@ArapTaharqa@bAnthonYsr They weren’t “their own”.
There was no such thing as a “black” identity in west Africa at that point.
That being said, there were African slave traders and European middlemen/purchasers/owners who were all culpable in the trans Atlantic slave trade.
We must come to terms with how we elevate not only mediocre thinkers with identity issues like Nikole Hannah-Jones, but also ridiculous clown characters like Umar Johnson.
Remember when Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza & Opal Whatever were getting rewarded around the world for creating the BLM hashtag? Even as they failed to actually commit themselves to advocacy & policy? To do the actual work of politics? Or even lead their own organization?
Remember how Shaun King was always raising money for one thing or another until he disappeared into Islam?
The same way Umar’s school still isn’t open? Forcing the Prince of Pan Africanism to start his own Diaspora War as an evasion?
These people were incompetent from the start. And our refusal to judge them as such has consequences that are still reverberating throughout our community. The era of accountability can’t start soon enough…
DUB. This week has been very trying. I lost my grandfather, who got me watching football, last weekend. I was helping to take care of him in the weeks leading up to it. It’s nice to know that sports, and Stanford football, can provide me relief and happiness during dark moments.