Leah

she/her

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

THE ONLY REASON WE DO NOT HAVE A NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES IS REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS BOTH TAKE BRIBES FROM GIANT INSURANCE COMPANIES.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

I am seeing people question whether Kamala Harris is “really Black.” I don’t think these people know the origins of judgements of who’s “really Black.” Let’s dive into history.

Beginning in the 15th century, human traders not only constructed what we now call Blackness—combining the different peoples of Africa into one race, one inferior race, worthy of enslavement. These human traders also judged who was “really Black“ based on whatever ethnic groups in West Africa they imagined made the best “slaves.” Different human traders from Portugal, France, Holland, and England expressed various ideas about who were “really Black,” meaning who made the best “slaves.”

Human traders created a hierarchy of peoples of African descent, what I call ethnic racist ideas in my work, where ethnic groups from regions like Senegambia were imagined to be superior (“slaves”) than ethnic groups from regions like Angola. These ethnic racist ideas contributed to different ethnic groups across West Africa being priced differently in the transatlantic human trade. So, originally, to be considered “really Black” was to be considered really servile.

By contrast, racist theorists constructed White people as the “free” race. These racist ideas became so widespread the anti-slavery resistance of biracial people were attributed to their “partial” Whiteness, including in books like Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tim’s Cabin. Which is to say, both White enslavers and White abolitionists suggested biracial abolitionists, like Frederick Douglass, were not “really Black” because biracial people were not completely servile.

Today, these racist ideas of Black people as servile justifies Black people disproportionately still having to work in service jobs. When Black people become leaders and have the audacity to give direction, the attacks are regular and toxic and personal since racist ideas socialize people of all races, including Black people, to resist taking direction from Black leaders. Today, like two centuries ago, the servant, not the leader, is “really Black.”

Over the last few centuries, antiracist Black people have reconstructed Blackness by eradicating the “slave,” by decolonizing the mind, by making Blackness equal to Whiteness (and other racial identities), by making Blackness a global identity of solidarity, of cultural diversity, of resistance that includes biracial people who identify as Black. After these radical reconstructions of Blackness, it is easy to not know that human traders were the first group to judge who was “really Black.”

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Israel: *drops more bombs on Gaza than bombings in Dresden, Hamburg and London combined from WWII, up to 200k feared dead*

Media: Israel has a right to defend itself

Yemen: *strikes Tel Aviv with one drone, one killed*

Media: Terror attack in Tel Aviv!

We live in a circus

[Leah @leahzero]

@BrickMahoney facts tho

[inhumans of capitalism (Ojibwa ) @Inhumansoflate1]

I can’t stress this enough

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

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[Amy ☭ @Amysaysfuckalot]

In a decent society this would never be a thing. Capitalism is pure evil.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Capitalism will never solve homelessness.

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

#IStandAgainstJKRowling

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

this is still me

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

Malcolm X warned us about liberals.

[CODEPINK @codepink]

BREAKING: UN Human Rights Council has concluded Israel is responsible for:

“extermination, intentionally directing attacks against civilians & civilian objects, murder or wilful killing, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer, gender persecution targeting Palestinian men & boys, sexual and gender-based violence amounting to torture”

[Lana Tatour @Lana_Tatour]

A reminder that Israel holds thousands of Palestinian hostages in torture centres.

[Leah @leahzero]

@brutal_regime Christian nationalist white supremacists?

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

The @nytimes’ way of saying “armed Israeli settlers have stolen new Palestinian land”

[MissFina 🇨🇦🇭🇰🇨🇳 @Love4Spring]

Americans are trapped by their democratic system

Not only do the lengthy and costly presidential campaigns give rise to legal corruption*** and prevent capable young people from running,

but the immense power of the president to veto and sign bills also incentivizes wealthy interest groups to fund presidential candidates to enhance their political influence, often contrasting the common good for the larger society.

***All of these practices are legal:
👎 Acceptance of massive campaign donations
👎 Investment of elected leaders in companies that benefit from the laws they pass
👎 Acceptance of "contributions" from lobbyists

[Leah @leahzero]

university of Manchester today 👊❤️remember silence supports the oppressors 🇵🇸