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magz · 2 months

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The thing am want people to understand is:

The people that will see those unseriously worded and vague "stop treating motaz as your blorbo and stop canceling people for being problematic during a genocide" type posts,

and the reactions to those posts with outrage about woke people are "canceling" palestinians,

Those people seeing those posts aren't going to be the few yet loud callous "allies" making discourse that never truly supported palestinians.

Nor the people making bait trying to intentionally incite distrust in the Palestinian cause, that aren't allies but pose as ally. Or aren't even allies nor try to pretend to.

The people seeing it the most are going to be Sudanese people, and black allies to the Sudanese and Palestinians.

and whether intend to or not - those unserious worded posts and tweets, including when using same language as how u.s. conservatives and antiblack intellectuals talk about black people but in a leftist context -

Are a gateway into other posts having this obfuscated conversation with more expressly antiblack rhetoric surrounding the situation.

Serving to, in effect, steer away the conversation on Sudan and the original context. Make it about how global north people are so entitled, when black people in global south and Sudan are criticizing this. The way Sudanese aid is being redirected by Egypt, the perception of Sudanese being more "foreign" for being majorly black arab, how to boost Sudan plight - which am plan to steer this into.

But in only acknowledge the part of parasocial relations people have with Palestinian journalists where they don't take genocide seriously and are racist towards arabs in general, but not acknowledge the very common parasocial aspect where Sudanese girl criticizing Motaz would result in her getting harrassed and the proliferation of antiblackness - it shows how easy it is to fall for this stuff.

All it takes is a few people either not bothering to check the original context, or reacting to reactions. It doesn't necessarily require someone to have bad intentions nor "mean" to downplay antiblackness and the Sudanese. The effects will do the rest on social media. It is never about just 1 specific post, nor 1 specific person's intent.

Synonymizing "people criticizing Palestinians for legitimate concerns and supporting Sudanese ppl being exposed to discriminations big" with same group that "would abandon the Palestinian cause", in the people's consciousness. The conversations very premise was started wrong.

Yes, we can care about more things at once, but the framing is wrong.

Notice how some of the major Palestinian users on here are aware of this and chose not to do that for a reason.

[Note: am going to allow reblogs temporarily and then turn it off, so as to turn this into a more productive route after magz addressed these issues.]

#antiblack racism #racism #text post #o post #palestine

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sunbeamedskies · 2 years

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There’s a troubling train of thought I see some places online- some people think Kanye is being cancelled because he pissed off the “wrong people” (Jews.) That kind of thinking, though often unintentional, still furthers the antisemitic lie that the Jews are the ones “in charge” in some way. In reality, brands are dropping Kanye for a combination of the white lives matter shirt ordeal, his antisemitic comments, and his lies about George Floyd. He is being cancelled for *both* his antisemitism and antiblackness

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intersexfairy · 9 months

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Last week, two young Black men were murdered. 33 year old Ricky Cobb II was shot to death by Minnesota State troppers. 28 year old O'Shae Sibley, a Gay dancer, was stabbed to death while playing Beyoncé's music and vougeing with his friends.

The cops responsible for Ricky Cobb's death are Ryan Londregan (the shooter), Brett Seide, and Garrett Erickson. His relatives (and many others) are fighting to have these troopers held accountable. A currently unnamed 17-year old turned himself in for stabbing O'Shae Sibley, although he was accompanied by others.

I don't know if Ricky Cobb's family has a crowdfund set up or not (if so, someone please add on), but O'Shae Sibley's family does. You can find the GFM here.

O'shae not only was the glue to this family, he was a great dancer and performer for the majority of his life. His spirit lit up every room he stepped in. His smile was contagious! To know him, was to live him. He did not deserve this. Everyone loved his spirit ❤️

-- from the GoFundMe started by O'Shae Sibley's father, Jake Kelly.

From Ricky Cobb's relatives:

"I'm exhausted. My heart is heavy every day for the last three days. Waking up, I have migraines. And I'm hurt. I would like those officers to man up. I'm here to be a voice and stand strong like a rock that I am for my son and speak out." -- Mother, Nyra Fields Miller

"My brother was a good man. He was a provider for all of us. He protected all of us." -- Sibling, Octavia Ruffin

These men should still be alive. Their families, friends, and community should not be going through this loss and grief. If there's one thing any of us (nonblack people) can do, it's not let them go through this unheard and unseen.

Rest in power Ricky Cobb II. Rest in power O'Shae Sibley. Abolish the police.

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feluka · 3 months

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Found this on twitter. Robin was a Black nonbinary artist who died due to medical negligence from the transphobic, racist hospital staff that was supposed to look after them. Please help their family bring them back home to rest.

#antiblack racism #transphobia #medical negligence

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allthecanadianpolitics · 5 months

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Content Warning for anti-Black violence and hate crimes.

As the Vancouver man targeted in a racist attack last year plans to educate others about hate, Global News has obtained chilling surveillance video of the incident. Survivor Willy Kabayabaya said he is still haunted by the assault. “It’s not really easy for me to sleep in the night,” Kabayabaya told Global News in an interview. “Sometimes the knife came into my mind and I wake up like at 1 a.m., 2 a.m.” The Vancouver father of three was waiting outside a building near Victory Square and talking on his phone on May 12, 2022 when a stranger approached him and began hurling racial slurs and threats, before pulling out a knife.

Tagging @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #british columbia #vancouver #antiblack violence #antiblack racism #hate crimes #hate crime cw

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ladymazzy · 1 year

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The Golliwog and the tory who wanted a slave – Slavery was bad, okay?

This piece by Dr Peter Olusoga (senior lecturer in psychology, brother of historian David, both from working class Northern backgrounds) does well in expressing just how frustrating it is to be thrown back into The Most Retro racism, and having to explain basics like 'golliwogs are racist caricatures used to denigrate Black people' to an unrepentant, disingenuous crowd of shit-brained bigots hellbent on gaslighting those of us who grew up in the 20th century and were on the receiving end of this and other racist pejoratives

One of the things I'm actually stunned by is that there are actually people who - with a straight face - have been saying 'they're called gollies actually', as if *that* makes it all better

It's bad enough that Black people have to even explain the way that they're racist at all; now we also have to contend with bad faith claims that only one specific form of the name is racist and 'you're the real racist for using that word aktchually'

Those fucking dolls were *always* racist. However nostalgic you are for your childhood nursery and Enid Blyton and whatnot, they *always* represented the dehumanisation of Black people in accordance with the views of white supremacy and western European colonialism

#uk politics #uk racism #antiblack racism #colonial legacies #scraping the bottom of the barrel having to entertain this racist nonsense as 'a valid viewpoint worthy of debate'#normal island #never tory

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yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666 · 11 months

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non-blacks truly do not understand that African American descendants of slaves are not welcome in Africa. They don't want us and they didn't want our ancestors they sold into slavery. (Not to absolve white people of their culpability, of course.)

everything African American descendants of slaves do and say originated in the Americas. We built a new identity from scratch to make lemonade out of a-hell-on-earth.

we are without a motherland. we were brought here by force and we have no place to go.

every time they'd re-introduce former slaves back to Africa, there was always violence. we are reviled on the continent. they do not want us. our adaptations to living in a hostile land makes us unlike them and also they tend to buy into the othering that antiblack racism promotes. they think as badly of us as white people (and you) do.

please understand this.

#TAST #trans atlantic diaspora #antiblack racism

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vague-humanoid · 1 year

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Newly revealed text messages sent by police in Antioch, California show that officers for years engaged in racist conduct and celebrated their own brutality while facing no pushback at all from superiors.

Among other things, the Mercury News reports, officers in Antioch made racist jokes about offering a "prime rib dinner" to anyone who shot Mayor Lamar Thorpe with projectiles often used on protesters.

Other messages show officers boasting about violence they inflicted on others while at times lamenting they didn't go further in making alleged perpetrators suffer.

One particularly egregious text sent by Antioch Officer Eric Rombough lamented that the injuries he inflicted on a suspect wouldn't be as readily visible as he had hoped.

“I was bummed that beast was so fat cuz he didn’t bruise up very fast,” he said.

Text messages from multiple officers showed them referring to Black people as "gorillas,” “monkeys” and “water buffalo," and one officer even boasted to an officer in a nearby city that he could use the N-word in group texts without any fear of being reprimanded.

Mayor Thorpe slammed his city's officers for the racist text messages in an interview with Mercury News.

"There are times where I’ve asked the police department to circle my house because my daughter’s there by herself,” Thorpe said. “And this is the type of animus they have toward people like me and my daughter? I’m just so disgusted right now. I can’t even describe it.”

#antiblack violence cw #state violence #police abuse #antiblack racism

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magz · 2 months

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It's February 27 - you may have heard it's "Dominican Independence Day".

Here's some "food for thought".

Let's question why Dominican Republic's official "Independence Day" celebrates being separated from Haiti.

Why not instead celebrate any of the times Spain's colonizing forces were defeated or when slavery was abolished - especially when Haiti was an ally?

Why not truthfully highlight the damage Spain and United States did with their colonialism, instead of scapegoating Haiti?

Let's question how pro-colonial antiblack D.R. nationalist propaganda has been normalized.

"When is the real Dominican Independence Day? Is there just one day? Why is the separation from the first Black nation so fervently celebrated more than the independence from European colonization? How do Dominicans celebrate our independence day? And why are so few people educated on the important series of events that comprise our independence history?"

#note: the article's choice of words could be better.... bipoc. cr--pled. etc.#link post #o post #dominican republic #colonialism #antiblack racism #sij

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genderkoolaid · 1 year

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#also if you think there arent transphobes (not even just t/rfs) who want transmascs dead #you are out of your mind #unless you also think no one wants lesbians or ''uppity women outside their place'' dead #m.#transandrophobia #antiblack racism

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yellowis4happy · 2 months

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This is so fucking aggravating bc transmisogyny is very real but this bitch doesn't sound like she's ever even heard of critical race theory. I really need other white people to remember that many, many TME people are very much racialized as Predatory/Dangerous/Deviant/Perverted/Aggressive/Abusive. You literally can't say "TME people never have to think about this" without erasing the experiences of countless Black and brown people, which is racist! But what can we expect from the woman who told Black USAmericans that they are not allowed to call their state-sponsored oppression a genocide

#this is just such an inappropriate response to the pred/strogen situation #antiblack racism #made it green so you can see where the screenshot ends

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thatspookyagent · 1 year

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Being Black and presenting as masculine, embracing masculinity, traditionally masculine gender roles, and so much more that may be viewed as masculine within certain societies, is not lesser than anything associated with femininity. Black masculine women and femmes do not need to conform or perform to your standards and ideas of femininity, in order to be seen as human, gentle, caring, dainty, or worthy of protection. Neither do masc presenting Black women and femmes need to even like being feminine or have to be feminine in general, in order to be important and cherished voices within their respective communities.

All Black women and femmes, regardless of identities and presentations, do not need to embrace and present as feminine in order for our lives to be seen as valuable. We do NOT need to be feminine in order to receive sympathy or empathy. We do not need to be feminine in order to be included in the phrase/movement of Protect Black Women. And we don't need a connection to or to identify with womanhood in order for our voices to be heard.

This goes double for brown and dark skinned Black women and femmes even more. Challenge the systems that make it so darker Black women and femmes are barred from or have restricted access on exploring, embracing, and being seen feminine or women but also challenge the views and associations that being masculine or having a close and intimate relationship with manhood as a darker skinned Black woman/femme is inherently violent, inherently angrier, and inherently unattractive.

Last but not least darker skinned Black women and femmes who are plus sized and present as masculine, should not be anyone's epitomy of what violent, dangerous, or aggressive looks like. Biases like those directly contribute to systematic oppression against fat Black women/femmes on daily basis. They don't exist in a vacuum and should not be taken lightly.

Ultimately Black women and femmes having femininity, the right to identify or be seen as women stripped from us by white people and white supremacy, does not mean make masculinity unaccessible to us, or that presenting as masculine doesn't have its own prejudices and biases to dismantle, or that masculinity is a prison to us or our only viable option. If you're not advocating for and protecting all Black women and femmes than your activism, allyship, actions, and words, are empty.

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feluka · 3 months

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Idk why these OFMD fans can’t let it go; they do know their precious blorbos get k!lled in end, right? Historically speaking that is?

oh they do know! these fuckers left FLOWERS on a slaver's grave IRL because of the fucking show.

the article is EXTREMELY generous to those fans but here's the relevant part:

best thing to come of this show is the woe its cancellation caused.

#asks #slavery #antiblack racism

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allthecanadianpolitics · 11 months

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Two Montreal police officers who lied and said they were unaware of a man's medical condition before he died while in custody in 2017 have been suspended for 22 days without pay.

Officers Dominique Gagné and Mathieu Paré were given a two-day suspension for being reckless toward a detainee's safety and a 20-day suspension for giving the police watchdog information they knew was false. The two suspensions are to be served consecutively.

After being arrested during a traffic stop, David Tshiteya Kalubi, 23, told the officers he had sickle cell anemia and relied on medication to treat it. The following morning, Kalubi — who didn't have medication with him at the time of his arrest — was transferred to municipal court, where he died in detention.

The information about his condition was never documented on the inmate control sheet, and there would have been no way for officers at the municipal court to know about Kalubi's condition.

A Quebec coroner concluded that Kalubi did not die because he didn't have access to medication. [...]

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #Québec #Montreal #SPVM #racism #anti blackness #antiblack violence tw #antiblack racism #murder tw #death tw #police watchdog

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gynoidgearhead · 1 year

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Thread by Alec Karakatsanis from June 15, 2021:

This the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to Ezell Gilbert is important because it explains how our legal system works as well as any case I have ever seen.

In 1997, Ezell Gilbert was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison in a crack cocaine case. Because of mandatory sentencing (treating crack 100 times as severely as powder), he was put in a cage for a quarter century, and even the judge said this was too harsh.

At sentencing, Gilbert saw an error that increased his sentence by about **ten years** based on a misclassification of a prior conviction. In 1999, without a lawyer, he filed a petition complaining about the mistake. The Clinton DOJ opposed him, and a court ruled against him.

Ten years later, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in another person’s case, confirming that Gilbert had been correct about the error in his case. A public defender helped him file a new petition for immediate release from prison back to his family. He had served his time.

But Obama/Holder DOJ argued to a federal judge that even if his sentence was illegal, Gilbert must remain in prison. They said the “finality” of criminal cases was too important to allow prisoners to file more than one petition, even if the first one was wrongly denied.

The federal judge sided with Obama/Holder, and Ezell Gilbert remained in a cage even though everyone agreed he was now in prison illegally. He had the audacity to hope that courts would follow the law.

A federal appeals court disagreed with Obama/Holder, and in June 2010, three judges set Gilbert free after more than 14 years in prison.

The judges rejected the DOJ’s argument as a departure from fairness and common sense. They said that it could not be the law in the U.S. that a person had to serve a prison sentence that everyone admitted was illegal. Ezell Gilbert went home and stayed out of trouble.

Here’s where it gets interesting. There are many people like Gilbert in federal prison whose sentences are illegal. Did you know that? Instead of rushing to ensure that thousands of people illegally separated from their families were set free, DOJ decided to fight and appeal.

The Obama/Holder DOJ argued: If prisoners were allowed to file more petitions, the “floodgates” would open and many others — mostly poor, mostly Black — would have to be released. They asked a larger group of judges to reverse Gilbert’s victory.

In 2011, a larger group of judges, led by a Republican majority, agreed with Obama/Holder that the “finality” of sentences was too important to allow prisoners to be released on a second rather than first petition, even if the prisoner was correct all along.

Ezell Gilbert was rearrested and sent back to prison to serve out his illegal sentence in a cage. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…

An 87-year-old Republican judge wrote a dissent. Having served in WWII, he called the explicit decision to illegally keep a human being in jail “shocking.” He wrote that a “judicial system that values finality over justice is morally bankrupt.”

Addressing Obama/Holder argument directly, he said: “[T]here are many others in Gilbert’s position — sitting in prison serving sentences that were illegally imposed. We used to call such systems ‘gulags.’ Now, apparently, we call them the United States.”

Major media ignored Ezell Gilbert’s case at the time.

In 2013, two years after sending him back to a cage, Obama granted Gilbert clemency, and the media praised Obama for his leniency. Tens of thousands of other human being remained in prison illegally. You’ve never heard their names.

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#haven't found any tumblr posts about this yet and i know it's an old thread but holy shit #ezell gilbert #incarceration #prison industrial complex #war on drugs #antiblack racism #racism #criminalization #prison #prison abolition #private prisons #sentencing inequality #us politics #politics

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