It also ignores how these African slave traders were proxies for European colonial powers in the same way neocolonialism is held up by Western-backed dictators. African people were resisting them too.
Lebron, a billionaire, said his woman gotta be a venture capitalist and a bunch of niggas who haggle over the cost of their monthly child support said hell yeah
His generation were so crucial to solidarity building. And one thing Madiba did was acknowledge the artist’s role in the liberation movement! Abdullah Ibrahim’s is photographed here with Hugh Masekela, Letta Mbulu, Caiphus Semenya, Queeneth Ndaba, Julian Bahula, Jonas Gwangwa, Abdullah Ibrahim.
📸: Peter Magubane
I love Black women and girls and Black men and boys including Black LGBTQ folks and also being Black American and the Black diaspora and I want us all safe and loved, but everybody acts like you have to “pick a team” and abandon everyone else. And what do you have to show for it?
@HlisUmoya@CrimeWatchZW Zim is currently mourning 7 kids to a reckless fuel induced accident, and you dont even see the danger of unregulated,no Safety measure petroleum garage in a residential area
Like the whole message was simple, its alot of BLACK shit going on that day, idk maybe twitter dont know Brazil has the highest black population in South America? And Haiti? Like no explanation even needed bffr
I don't help anyone from a place of believing I "owe" them—or anyone else—anything.
I help because the idea of someone flourishing genuinely makes my heart sing, and I believe that whatever "helpful" thing I am choosing to do increases the possibility of that outcome happening.
If the discussions of xenophobia remain stuck with South Africa, what that implicitly communicates to migrants across the continent is that no one cares about what happens to them unless the violence they endure is at the hands of South Africans & that is incredibly dark
Just two weeks back your country just passed an anti LGBTI bill denying it's citizens hospitality. Maybe start at home before speaking out against others.