Hip hop in its purest form will always make America uncomfortable. The genre has been watered down in mainstream culture for so long that folks have forgotten it was never designed to be accepted by the masses. Enjoyable? Yes. But accepted as equal to pop, country, rock? Never.
innocence cannot be our metric for determining who is and is not worthy of life, of living. guilt & innocence is a binary that folds under the weight of this nation’s history and cruelty. your innocence is always conditional
solidarity with haitians love to haitians. and if you refuse to stand up for any of these groups targeted by outlandish disgusting xenophobia, please just know: you will be next
White and non-Black people cannot tell the difference between a Haitian, Black American, Jamaican, Nigerian, or Kenyan. Y’all better learn some solidarity or die. Honestly, they were all right. Thomas Sankara, Kwame Ture, James Baldwin, Malcolm X. They were all right.
while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves
That you’d have people in Ohio believing Haitians are running around and randomly eating wildlife and are a threat to them, is directly related to the fact that US politicians have been spreading myths of “Haitian cannibalism” to justify getting police + troops into Haiti
I firmly believe that anti-Haitian racism is deeply tied to the legacy of the Haitian Revolution. It feels like we're still being penalized for that historic fight for freedom.