Immigrants and their offspring believe they’re able to be in the US and enjoy its liberties off the strength of white benevolence instead of Black resistance and organization
Gotta realize majority folks is not for no full on Revolution because they spent a whole lot of time tryna make the system work for them. Mfs spent 50 years tryna build a chair they can’t comprehend the table having to be broken
Dr. WEB DuBois:
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no “two evils” exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say. There is no third party. On the Presidential ballot in a few states (seventeen in 1952), a “Socialist” Party will appear. Few will hear its appeal because it will have almost no opportunity to take part in the campaign and explain its platform. If a voter organizes or advocates a real third-party movement, he may be accused of seeking to overthrow this government by “force and violence.” Anything he advocates by way of significant reform will be called “Communist” …”
Every opportunity any immigrant has in America is directly related to Black Americans and the sacrifices made by the elders and ancestors. Pop culture, language, schooling, work, and literally anything else all non american people of color participate in, is built of the back of Black American cultivation.
@stillnotziora I feel like once you’re a certain age it’s ur duty to also try to educate ur parents bc you’re the one who’s actually in school learning abt Black American History a lot of times these African parents just come here on the “American Dream” lie w/o doing any research
Honestly, im over immigrants loudly calling Black Americans lazy You left YOUR homeland to pursue success in America, benefited from rights WE fought for, then turn around and bash us? Please…. We fought for ours You could’ve stayed home and fought for yours, Bye Davinchi.
After 9/11 Muslims had to try so hard to explain that only a tiny minority of them support religious extremism. Mosques all over the US made it clear. Every Muslim you’d meet would disavow it.
Yet Jews comfortably sit back as the majority of their institutions support extremism.
White women in Nazi germany did.
White women during the enslavement of Africans did.
White women in colonial times did.
Let’s not do this revisionist history or deify women as a whole as being this moral standard. Intersectionality tells a more accurate story.
"Personalized" art is just pornography, a product aimed at satisfying a base need. Actual art is the opposite of personalized: its beauty lies precisely in that it is the product of another mind, which is why it can be surprising, even revelatory.
we’re gonna need to come to the realization that the American non-profit model is a failure and actively failing and we’ll need to dismantle the monster we’ve designed and figure out something else.
I see a lot of people confused about what “GRINGO/GRINGA” means, worry not! Info thread 🧵
1. Gringo/Gringa is Gen Z internet slang referring to anyone that isn’t from the USA
2. Americans also jokingly refer to themselves as Gringo sometimes!
Hope this helps!
the whole “you’re black first” shit has never moved me as a black woman cause there’s simply no way to remove one layer of my identity from the other. i’m neither first, both of them always.