Afro hair: School bans probably illegal, says watchdog - BBC News

starting to feel this way about everything lately

Orpo Cabinet vocabulary in Finnish

Orpon hallitus - Orpo cabinet Hallitus - government, cabinet Kansallinen Kokoomus - National Coalition Party Perussuomalaiset - Finns Party Ruotsalainen kansanpuolue - Swedish People's Party of Finland Kristillisdemokraatit - Christian Democrats Enemmistöhallitus - majority government Hallitusohjelma - government programme "Vahva ja välittävä Suomi" - "A strong and committed Finland" Leikkaus - cut Äärioikeisto - far right, extreme right Rasisti - racist Fasisti - fascist Neonatsi, uusnatsi - neo-nazi Etnonationalisti - ethnonationalist Valkoinen ylivalta - white supremacy Salaliittoteoria - conspiracy theory Väestönvaihto - great replacement Groomaaja - groomer Rasismi - racism Syrjintä - discrimination Ksenofobia - xenophobia Antisemitismi - antisemitism Islamofobia - islamophobia Afrofobia - afrophobia Homofobia - homophobia Transfobia - transphobia Seksismi - sexism Kiihottaminen kansanryhmää vastaan - incitement to hatred Vihapuhe - hate speech Häirintä - harrasment Maalittaminen, maalitus - shaming online, cancelling, provoking outrage towards a certain person or entity Väkivalta - violence Ilmasto(nmuutos)denialismi, ilmastonmuutoksen kieltäminen - climate change denial, global warming denial Vitsi, huumori - joke, humour Sananvapaus - freedom of speech Kaksoisviestintä - doublespeak Propaganda - propaganda Nollatoleranssi - zero tolerance Epäluottamuslause - vote of no confidence Mielenosoitus - demonstration, protest Leikata - to cut Rajoittaa - to restrict, to limit Kiristää -  to tighten, to make more strict or stringent Heikentää - to weaken, to deteriorate Pettää - to betray Valehdella - to lie Leimata - to stigmatize, to taint (a person's reputation) Maalittaa - to shame online, to cancel, to target a person for shaming due to opinions, actions, etc., and urge other people to shame them as well Hyökätä - to attack Hyväkysyä - to accept, to agree with Normalisoida - to normalize

Hi, could you please clarify what you meant by non-Anglophone fans regarding your critiques of EndOTWRacism not caring about those fans because non-Anglophone means non-English & that excludes a plethora of fans from the Global South that were colonized by the English (like my country South Africa) and that makes me a bit uncomfortable.

Also, antiblackness is a global phenomenon & even happens in majority Black countries (once again, I highly recommend doing some research on South Africa & Afrophobia in that specific country). Being Asian alone doesn't mean someone will wholly support the very specific commitments OTW made in 2020 (where they also cited Dr Rukmini Pande [an Indian, and therefore Asian, fan scholar from India where English is spoken & even a mode of instruction in many of its schools & tertiary institutions - must she & fans like her also be excluded because they are Anglophone fans?] & Stitch without asking these two fan scholars for their consent to be cited by OTW leading to a barrage of harassment towards both individuals).

If you want EndOTWRacism to broaden their scope, you should definitely suggest that to them. But they are following the specific commitments the OTW made. Also, I have seen conversations about OTW not making enough commitments in 2020 to do something about racism on their platform by some of the mods of EndOTWRacism in a personal capacity but the main reason they are sticking to the specific commitments OTW made is because they are avoiding being accused of trying to make OTW do things they never said they would do. By sticking to the specific commitments OTW made, EndOTWRacism can hold OTW accountable for something they publicly made commitments to.

Also, OTW made these commitments in response to anti-blackness. So, centering antiblackness makes sense (and also just on a historical level - when antiblackness is engaged with in antiracist policies - the benefits of that move upwards to other racial groups - see the The Voting Rights Act of 1965 that included pro-immigration legislation that made it easier for immigrants of colour to move into the US (this was made possible because of Black Americans). Or my own country of South Africa that got rid of Apartheid in 1994 (I would be born just 3 years after that when my mom was 30) and Black, Coloured (this is a specific racial category in SA), Indian & Chinese South Africans could vote, move freely & live wherever they wanted in SA. This was made possible by Black South African freedom leaders in community with other South Africans of colour that worked in solidarity.

Anti-asian racism is a huge problem in fandom that has been discussed by fans of colour for a long time (see conversations in the early/mid 2010s in fandom about Lucy Liu's mistreatment by BBC Sherlock fans or Glen's mistreatment from the Walking Dead fandom). And with the increase of East Asian media in fandom since at least 2014, conversations about anti-asian racism are even more imperative. But that should not mean ignoring or hand waving away convos about antiblackness - especially when that was the origin of OTW commitments in 2020. If you personally have a problem with that, by all means ask OTW why they didn't specifically talk about other forms of racism or make any other statement with commitments when the StopAsianHate movement was in full swing. Why was OTW's statement so clearly influenced by BlackLivesMatter and the commitments various individuals, businesses & non-profit organizations were making to this specific movement. OTW will have more board meetings, so if you are a paying member, you can absolutely ask them these questions. I know those questions are things I have thought about.

All the best, H.

"because non-Anglophone means non-English & that excludes a plethora of fans from the Global South that were colonized by the English (like my country South Africa) and that makes me a bit uncomfortable."

I am also non-Anglophone and yes, End OTW Racism explicitly excluding non-Anglophone fans also makes me uncomfortable, because as you say, racism is a global problem.

I am not sure why you are bringing up anti-blackness and anti-asianness as if it is an either/or matter. Caring about anti-blackness doesn't mean not caring about anti-asianness. Caring about anti-asianness doesn't mean not caring about anti-blackness. Some fans are mixed race and are both. Some fans have to deal with other forms of racism (like the anti-Aboriginal slur which still gets used often to talk about Omegaverse)

The OTW's goals did not explicitly mention centering anti-blackness. End OTW Racism's goals did not explicitly mention centering anti-blackness.

If that is what the OTW and End OTW Racism want to center, they can, but they should say that explicitly. But in the case of End OTW Racism, excluding non-Anglophone fans makes no sense, because as you say, anti-blackness is a global problem.

This is a time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist oppression.

May Day – a call to build an international movement of working class and poor people across lines of race, nation and religion for workers’ control and democracy from below, social justice and freedom from political and economic oppression – remains critical. In a country racked by anti-immigrant violence, racial and ethnic tensions, the fragmentation of the labour federation Cosatu, corporate scandals and political corruption, it is time to remember May Day’s roots and aspirations.

The day has become an institutionalised festival, yet its origins lie in powerful struggles for a united, anticapitalist, bottom-up, global justice movement, affirming the common interests of people, worldwide, against ruling elites and their divide-and-rule policies.

With the 2015 May Day set to be a showdown between South Africa’s rival union blocs, it is time to remember its roots and aims. Working-class unity is the only way to overcome problems such as class inequalities and national oppression in South Africa, a country ruled by the 1% and racked by periodic anti-immigrant violence.

Posing the problem as psychological – as in Police Minister Nathi Nhleko’s claim that recent violence is “Afrophobia” driven by “self-hate” – ignores attacks on Asian foreigners and assumes a natural state of African unity. It completely ignores the role of class and capitalist systems in which divisions between rich and poor, powerful and powerless, exist within races and nations. A Zimbabwean worker, a Pakistani worker and a South African worker have more in common with each other than any of them has with the Zimbabwean, Pakistani and South African upper class.

Ruling classes pit people against one another by means of economic policies that entrench historic inequalities, political mobilisation on the basis of race and nation by parties, states, ideologues and propaganda. Suburbs that are home to the black and white middle and upper classes sleep peacefully, far from the chaos and misery that arise from these policies, whereas the working class and poor turn on each other.

South Africa’s incomplete transition out of apartheid has left deep racial inequalities and national divisions. The legacy of apartheid and segregation is visible everywhere: the black, coloured and Indian working class and poor are doubly oppressed, by race and by class; the main political parties provide no solutions, but are part of the problem.

Radical changes are needed. Those proposed by the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu) and, before it, the International Socialist League (ISL), Industrial Workers of Africa and the International Working People’s Association (IWPA) include placing power, including self-managed control of the economy, into the hands of a multiracial working class and poor majority, rather than in parliaments or corporate boardrooms.

Changing statues will not address the issues. Indeed, political mobilisation of this sort, delinked from a radical programme of working-class rule, will simply reinforce the myriad divisions – immigrant versus national, race versus race, country versus country – that are the key to the power of the 1%.

Radical changes require a dynamic labour movement with a radical project, allied to other popular sectors altogether outside the party system and the electoral arena. These positions lie at the radical roots of May Day, which began as a commemoration of and protest against the 1887 execution of four IWPA anarcho-syndicalist labour organisers from Chicago.

One of them, August Spies, declared from the scaffold: “If you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labour movement – the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery – the wage slaves – expect salvation – if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there and there and behind you and in front of you and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.”

Spies stressed popular self-emancipation: nonracial mass organisations to fight the state, capitalism and all forms of oppression and to establish a participatory, self-managed, democratic socialism, without state or corporate rule. This “Chicago idea” became part of the anarchist movement, especially in the Global South.

All states, all parties, were seen as betrayers of the working class, elections as futile choices between lying politicians – an insight many South Africans now accept. Even a workers’ party could not escape the logic of incorporation into a state machinery serving political and economic elites.

The IWPA practiced what it preached. IWPA militants such as the former slave Lucy Parsons, immigrants such as Spies and Samuel Fielden, and Americans such as Oscar Neebe and Albert Parsons led the main unions and working-class associations of Chicago, published radical newspapers and organised armed self-defence units. The IWPA took a leading role in a titanic 1886 general strike by black and white, immigrant and foreigner, centred on Chicago, and hence the organisation was targeted for repression. Eight IWPA militants were charged and four hanged.

In commemoration, the Socialist International, formed by anarchists, Marxists and others in 1889, launched May Day as a global day of action – in effect, it was to be a global general strike to build global labour unity.

May Day in South Africa started in the 1890s, among immigrant European workers. Early Witwatersrand events were whites-only affairs, ignoring the reality that the state felt no particular loyalty to white workers: more than 20 were shot down in the 1913 general strike, and martial law was used to suppress workers’ uprisings in 1914 and 1922.

An alternative May Day tradition emerged in 1904 from Cape Town, where local unions and the anarchist-led Social Democratic Federation (SDF) brought coloured and white workers together. The syndicalist ISL, formed in 1915, and Industrial Workers of Africa, formed in 1917, resolved to organise black workers, fight pass laws and secure complete equality through “one big union” fighting against segregation, capitalism and the state: the “Chicago idea” on the Highveld.

In 1917, the ISL organised a joint May Day rally in Johannesburg with the Transvaal Native Congress – the first local May Day with African speakers, including the ANC’s secretary general of the time, Horatio Mbelle. The Communist Party of South Africa, as it was then, continued the SDF-ISL tradition of May Day with a series of nonracial rallies to oppose race and class oppression. In 1922, the communist party demanded May Day become a paid public holiday, a demand taken up by the syndicalist-influenced black and coloured Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa.

Massive May Days were held from the 1920s onwards, but the tradition withered under apartheid repression. May Day was revived by the South African Congress of Trade Unions in the 1950s and by the new unions of the 1970s. By the mid-1980s, May Day was again a day of mass action, as pushed by Fosatu and then Cosatu.

But, if the tragic origins of May Day are still commemorated today, its grander aspirations remain unfulfilled. The enormous power of a united working class remains shackled.

Labour-led organisations achieved surprising victories in difficult and divided contexts. These movements provide a resource base for ideas and strategies. By specifically organising among immigrants and by focusing on issues that disproportionately affected some groups of workers (racial oppression, for example), they built working-class counter-power, counterculture and solidarity.

This is a far cry from the situation today. The Cosatu labour movement has not succeeded in addressing its internal divisions. Indeed, its alliance with the ANC and the South African Communist Party has led to numerous splits, from the attack on figures opposed to President Jacob Zuma, such as then-president Willie Madisha, by Zwelinzima Vavi in 2007, to the expulsion of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) from Cosatu on the flimsiest grounds.

Within South Africa’s borders, ANC-driven neoliberal policies such as the Growth, Employment and Redistribution strategy and the National Development Plan have deepened poverty and inequality, creating a breeding ground for tensions on all sides. Regionally, South Africa is an imperialist power, deploying its superior economic power and military and political muscle across the continent, alongside the expansion of private and state-owned corporations in Africa.

South African military actions in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo from 2013 onwards are protecting ANC-linked businesses. South African silence on corrupt candidates in fraudulent elections (the DRC in 2001, Nigeria in 2007, Zimbabwe in 2011) is governed by crude ruling-class interests.

This cannot be separated from South African contempt for fellow Africans and attitudes to the rest of Africa.

Numsa’s return to a radical project, with some roots in Fosatu, its break with the tripartite alliance and its formation of a United Front revives the original spirit of the movements and struggles that made May Day. Let us hope Numsa carries forward the radical spirit of May Day by way of bottom-up, participatory trade unions at a distance from Parliament, capitalism and the state. May Day needs to be linked back to its radical roots, its one-time internationalism and the vision of an inclusive socialism from below.

PACE Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination on combating racism and intolerance made the following statement

“The International day for the elimination of racial discrimination is an opportunity to reflect on the progress achieved in countering racism at global level, and on how to tackle the challenges that people of African descent still face. This year, as the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024, proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations, draws to a close, the picture is far from satisfying.

In 2020, the violent death of George Floyd at the hand of the police and the widespread protests that followed on both sides of the Atlantic sparked awareness of the extent of Afrophobia and the need to tackle it. A window of opportunity seemed to be open for legislators, policy makers and the society at large to seize. The developments since then are not always positive. Deeply entrenched racism endures. New forms of prejudice targeting people of African descent emerge. The current political landscape is a reason for concern, with racist and xenophobic populist movements resisting progress and undermining the struggle for inclusiveness and respect.

As members of the Committee on equality and non-discrimination, we reaffirm on this occasion our commitment to counter all forms of racism. Referring to Resolution 2389 (2021) on Combating Afrophobia, or anti-Black racism, in Europe, we reiterate our call on fellow politicians and public authorities to counter racism in all its forms, including at institutional level, and multiple and intersectional discrimination; recognise the contribution of people of African descent to Europe’s development and culture; and to recognise the negative impact of colonialism, enslavement and the transatlantic slave trade.

Finally, we reiterate our support to the No Hate Parliamentary Alliance. We believe in the Charter of European political parties for a non-racist and inclusive society, based on political parties self-regulation power, as an important tool to prevent and counter racial discrimination.”

From The Perfect Series. 6.8: Endless, Changeless.

We have, over thousands of years observed no changes in the nature of God or the creation, only learned more about them as our capabilities have increased. Still, we don’t grow or make progress. We are stuck. The Egyptians and Jews, the first literate races, circa 3500 BCE, wrangled with the same causes of our stagnation that remain with us today. They also had cures for them, those that supposedly help us keep up with and Endless and Changeless God:

In order for one to experience this kind of bliss, however, one needed to be aware of the importance of harmony in one's life and how a lack of such harmony affected others as well as one's self. The 'gateway sin' for the ancient Egyptians was ingratitude because it threw one off balance and allowed for every other sin to take root in a person's soul. Once one lost sight of what there was to be grateful for, one's thoughts and energies were drawn toward the forces of darkness and chaos.

This belief gave rise to rituals such as The Five Gifts of Hathor in which one would consider the fingers of one's hand and name the five things in life one was most grateful for. One was encouraged to be specific in this, naming anything one held dear such as a spouse, one's children, one's dog or cat, or the tree by the stream in the yard.

As one's hand was readily available at all times, it would serve as a reminder that there were always five things one should be grateful for, and this would help one to maintain a light heart in keeping with harmonious balance. This was important throughout one's life and remained equally significant after one's death since, in order to progress on toward an eternal life of bliss, one's heart needed to be lighter than a feather when one stood in judgment before Osiris.

Darkness and Chaos are associated with heavy hearts and sin, lightness and bliss, harmoniousness and balance with the Eternal since the beginning of literacy. These themes have not changed.

Our weapons, problems, and their scales, these have grown.

If we are to properly analyze how to lighten the heart one by one and reduce the use of weapons and frequency of wars we need, as the Egyptians priests suggested, to “swallow our hearts”.

First we must accept those responsible for war, prejudice, bigotry, Anti-Semitism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, damage to this planet, homelessness, poverty, depravity, scarcity, impropriety, those who participated in or ignored the 2016 Election Heist, the Border Wall, seismic mining of the oceans, anyone who supports gun rights, or voted for Donald Trump in either election shall not attain to eternity. You may not engineer needless suffering for other people and then plan to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

If you are an elected official and you are not doing everything possible to curb the aforementioned, heaven is just not a place for you. Heaven is a place for the steadfast for the good and pure.

This purity, which is freedom from the causes of unnecessary suffering in the earthly realm, must be attained before we can say we are prepared to enter heaven and conjoin with the Eternal.

As individual members of polities, we must not elect persons without solid track records for addressing weapons, homelessness etc. and a certain hawkishness towards bigoted persons, religious superstitions, and all the inequities in society.

Start with gratitude for what you have and wonder what it must be like to have less. Enlighten your life. Then wonder who around you is willing to understand the importance of Endless, Changeless happiness, put them in Office and insist they enlighten the world.

ok but what IS with your user..? /genq

a reference to negrophobia.

to save myself an essay and to condense the reasoning for my user, ill put it into bulletin format.

negrophobia is generally defined as the fear and/or hatred for black people. its exact definition is debated as negrophobia, in the western world, precedes the specific coinage of racism by centuries, and can be described more similiarly to afrophobia in depending on readings. it can manifest in mutiple different ways, from irrational fear and avoidance to outright anger and violence.

negrophobia, especially black negrophobia (an equivalent to internalized racism), is a historically important concept to me per my race, ethnicity, and current beliefs. it holds a significant weight that other terms lack for me.

my username doesn't come from malice or bad intent on my part. im not donning the word in a straight forward way or directly identifying as it. its more in the same vein of an ironic username.

hope that explains it moderately well.

"Its so sad that being LGBT could get you killed in Africa" is so fucking condescending as if that isn't true everywhere in the world 🙄 just say you think we are all primitive and evil like the inherent antiblackness and afrophobia of that. Also none of this would be true without colonialism and evangelical christofascists bankrolling draconian laws but y'all keep eating that Chick-fil-A! enjoy your fucking chicken as we die!

It seems this week has unearthed for many Europeans a stark reminder of underlying currents in many societies that has gone unchallenged for too long! It's been a shock to witness racism alive and thriving even in the midst of warfare, whilst we abhor all lose of innocent lives in conflict, we have to address the Elephant in the room, that the origins of Racial Discrimination starts in the religious imagination! The Papal bulls that set the tone for the xolonisation of others specifically mentions the need to civilised the 'Heathens', defined by the different ways in which Africans approached their conception of 'God'/Creator and their cultural values...less so to do with skin shade or features! We can only build a better world if and when we have honest conversations that challenge misguided positions of old - we all deserve better...EQUANIMITY FOR ALL! African Spirituality Matters! www.ancestralvoices.co.uk/courses #equality #equivocation #equanimity #ukraine #russia #war #stopthewar #stopracism #afriphobia #afrophobia #stophate #blacklivesmatter #africanlivesmatter #caribbean #asian #livesmatter #africanspirituality #africanspiritualitymatters #ancestralvoices #ancestral_voices https://www.instagram.com/p/Casf6mANfbI/?utm_medium=tumblr

Africa’s soft power in an age of global Afrophobia, By Oluwaseun Tella

Africa’s soft power in an age of global Afrophobia, By Oluwaseun Tella

…the book focuses on four key states in Africa: Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Egypt and seeks to Africanise the concept of soft power by highlighting the prominent African philosophies of these states including Omolúwàbí, Ubuntu, Harambee and Pharaonism, respectively. A common denominator of these philosophies is that they stress collectivism as opposed to the Western notion of the primacy of…

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Tumblr, I'm going to need you guys to tear this malicious liar a new one because the sheer magnitude of outright fantasies, misinformation and fabrications is too much for me to tackle tonight.

But let's start with the contradictions.

According to this badly written racist/ableist gunk:

1. All Neurodiverse people are Eurasian because Eurasians are mixed with Neanderthal (yet strangely enough, they conveniently leave out Aboriginals of Australia..... which blows up their entire disorganized theory about autism prevalence being directly linked to non-Africanness). South African San must be Eurasian cause "looks uwu".... but not neurodiverse? No info was given to back up this bizarre fallacy based on supposed visual similarities. It also never mentions any prevalence of autism among southeast Asians or Aboriginal Australians who are more Asian even than the San and even Berbers.... wtf.

2.Neurodiverse people (primarily Eurasian) can communicate telepathically and are more likely to believe in ghosts than neurotypicals (says who? This completely throws off the rest of the bizarre article, because most societies that are advanced and make "complex musical instruments" (lmao) move closer towards atheism and belief in scientific explanation for strange phenomena). And if that is the case, why then do Africans, who according to this creepy article, have the least cases of autism, have the highest number of spiritualists (statistics show that Africans are extremely religious and superstitious across various countries) in the modern world? Fewest number of atheists by observation (same way the writers makes the assumption that African MUSIC was purely for "entertainment" and not "complex". This person did NO research whatsoever before writing this fantasy story). And how do you use random surveys and opinions as citations?

Okay folks, please be careful where you get your info from. Especially written by a mentally deranged person arguing in favor of "de-pathologizing" serious illnesses like schizophrenia while promoting some of the most insidious racism I have ever seen online. They go back and forth between racist masturbations, delusion, opinion stated as fact and denial of legitimate scientific findings.

For example, their timelines for the migrations and origins of different homo type species were all over the place. They also mentioned primates that have nothing to do with humans or neanderthals. For like no reason. A waste. And then talked about ransom animals.

Also, how would hunter gatherers who have not advanced passed bows and arrows (the San) have introduced cattleherding to pastoralists who smelt iron, have actual kingdoms (also leaving behind brick structures and gold figures as is the case with Great Zimbabwe) and militaries (the Nguni)??????

The constant worship of the San while denigrating the Nguni/Bantu, Sahelian, Igboid etc groups sounds like a racial fantasy cooked up solely for the purpose of expressing animus towards Greater Africans, since no links to neurodiversity and neanderthals was made to these hunter gatherer San people.

If anything this outlandish piece of internet bottom scrapings further validates the pathologization of the very neurological conditions it seeks to vindicate, because it all sounds like word salad or a dangerous racist manifesto based purely on the limited scope and internal ramblings of a person who has trouble obtaining basic information for a thesis. Disorganized, detached and hallucinatory.

Can we also not lump all neurodiverse conditions into one basket? Some people are REALLY suffering from severe autism, ADHD and schizophrenia. This article completely erases that experience and instead puts forth a jumbled and sloppy smorgasbord of random ideas that do not actually support the thesis presented.

And one cannot take arbitrary percentages and link them together to prove a point. If people who score INFP/INFJ/etc on MBTI tests are 10% of the population, it doesn't mean that other groups (neurodiverse) that are only 10% of the population are "linked". This article went on to say ADHD was normal because introverts, essentially.

What?

Am I my brother's keeper 2016c #blackonblackcrime #afrophobia #selfhate #painting #southafrica #art #gallery #studioart #artstudio #bukhosinyathi #ubukhosi (at Jeppestown) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CcdpCDe2J/?igshid=4r5j9vag7rnu

The Persistent Animalization of Melanid/Origin Populations Globally & Why I'm Vegan for ALL Earthlings

I challenge all majority-melanid nations regardless of origin (African or Melanesian) to create patriation zones for these people in their countries the same way Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia created Shashamane for Jamaican Rastas who were being persecuted and killed in Jamaica for their beliefs.

I challenge vegans of color to recognize, address and share the info regarding the blatant animalization by derivative-humans of isolated melanid groups who do not have the international visibility and cultural influence that Afro-Americans and Greater Africans have on the global stage.

I challenge vegans and non-vegans of African descent especially, to OBEY the great Bob Marley and unite so that we can put our outrageous population numbers to good use by being the refuge and support system of melanid humans worldwide, which includes our similarly suffering cousins the Australian indigenous people, the Jarawa and the West Papuans. The slavery in Libya is just a repeat of medieval Morocco!

This story repeats itself over and over again. For 1000 years, this animalization of origin groups (melanid/Afroitic peoples) by derivative populations has been going on and on, and all it takes is disunity and complacency to allow it.

I challenge bloggers like Kwekudee and others to step up. I challenge Chronixx, Jay Z, Femi and Seun Kuti. I challenge Lupita Nyong'o, Viola Davis, Julius Malema and Donisha Prendergast.

Derivative populations do not see any of us as human.

They. Do. Not. See. Any. Of. Us. As. Human.

This is our common denominator besides our overlapping skins, hairs, features, attributes. There is a clear reason why only groups that LOOK a certain way are treated a certain way. The capitalist-colonial power structure (both Western and Eastern) does not register our clusters of attributes as human attributes.

Ignore genetic distance. People don't see genes, they see skin. They see noses. They see hair. They see limb length. Cut the BS. Unite or perish! We do not have any military bases or organizations with the power to protect and defend our peoples, lands, oceans and animals.

We rely on others. We need to rely on and do for one another. Handouts will not fix things.

Nigeria, I challenge you. I challenge you to step up. As the most powerful economy in Africa with one of the most densely populated places in the world, please please please step up! The distant cousins of Africans are suffering on levels similar to and sometimes beyond Africans. The colonial massacres, the quashed rebellions, they happened. They stained flags. We all share this legacy.

And we will not tolerate terms like "negrito" (mini negro in Spanish)here or other colonizer terms (speciesism). Miss me with it. Serious discussion only.

SETHEMBILE MSEZANE

love in the time of afrophobia

http://www.sethembile-msezane.com/love-in-the-time-of-afrophobia/