New Afrikan Afro-Pessimist & Black Insurrectionary Social Anarchist (he/him). Black Autonomy must be Intersectional, Anti-Authoritarian, and Non-Separatist.
Stephen A Smith did all that tap dancing only to be quickly reminded by Trump that he’s too dark to ever be in the club for real 🤷🏾♀️
Masculinity not gonna save you, my brother
What Afropessimism teaches you is the same collective psychic structure established by the invention of racial blackness & racial slavery is the same today with merely the shifting cosmetics of modern life & motivated repression almost convincingly concealing this
Dear non-white folk (and marginal whites), I too wish to see the fall of empire and will continue to ally with those who desire the same thing.
But what we not gone do is instrumentalize the history and trauma of black folk to make your own suffering more legible.
racism AND global antiblackness especially because they are not interchangeable terms.
a quote from Calvin Warren’s Onticide: Afropessimism, Queer Theory & Ethics: “Queer theory is always already in a relationship with blackness, but not as an "ally."
https://t.co/y7hHfrikMk
Marxists by and large don’t understand Afropessimism. The reason being Marxism is their religion and you wouldn’t expect a Christian fundamentalist to seriously read the Quran, so you can’t expect a historical materialist to seriously read AP. Both will trash the unstudied object
Didn’t know Indians were antiblack? And this is why afropessimism makes people uncomfortable because that POC shit really got y’all fucked up in the game. All nonblacks are antiblack.
These days I’m responding to every microaggression by naming it loudly in the moment. No one gets the privilege of being comfortable around me 😀
Idgaf who you are. We’re not doing this hierarchical bullshit anymore
“You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation. That’s what the law is: White fantasies as objective value. The White family and the White state have the firepower and the institutional infrastructure to enforce their projections.”
The US is the most racist, far right nation on earth 🤷🏾♀️
People keep asking why there isn’t a powerful, organized left here…
That’s why, friends 🥴
White American socialists & communists are still too antiBlack to organize any real class rebellion here