NEW YORK FUCKING CITY!!!!!!!!! MAMDANI!!!!! BAGELS!!!!! BACON EGG N CHEESE!!!! BROOKLYN!!!!! THE BRONX!!!!! HARLEM!!!!!!! QUEENS!!!!!! BIGGIE!!!! TIMBS!!!! HALAL CART. BODEGA CATS. JAYWALKING. PIZZA!!!!! FUCK ERIC ADAMS!!!! WE ARE THE GREATEST CITY IN AMERICA!!!!!!
Fanon wrote that, the colonised person uses religion to release tensions that should be directed at the oppressor.
The energy that should fuel revolt gets, redirected into the spiritual.
Haitian revolution, grenadian revolution, Black American power movements. None of em get shine from white american leftists. they wanna talk about the French revolution non stop tho
People are infinitely more important than buildings but this really pisses me off bc it’s reflective of how the lie of European cultural supremacy is enforced through systemic destruction and historical erasure.
They’re blowing up the cradle of civilization in the name of ��civilizing’ it.
Just remember that this human experience is temporary. You arrive with nothing, you spend your whole life chasing everything, but still leave with nothing. So make sure that your soul gains more than your hands.