Read on Twitter
*bloop*
They don’t want to confront Fanon’s specificity on their history of violence, in the savagery with which they’ve dealt with Natives and Black bodies
and that their violence can only be squashed with an equally forceful violence https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1272903068947005440
They don’t want to confront Fanon’s specificity on their history of violence, in the savagery with which they’ve dealt with Natives and Black bodies
and that their violence can only be squashed with an equally forceful violence https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1272903068947005440
Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” changed my life. It’s the exact space and moment in my lifetime that I stopped feeling the suffocating demand and requirement to submit to assimilating like most BIPOC succumb to, or that trash ass model minority myth that serves no one
I’m so glad my mama gave me that book as young as I was. It helped shaped who I am and who I’ve been the last 20 years or so since 15, 16, 17
It will force racialized ppl to stop feeling the need to perform for the white gaze, nor submit/succumb to whiteness
It will force racialized ppl to stop feeling the need to perform for the white gaze, nor submit/succumb to whiteness
Angela Davis’ works, especially Are Prisons Obsolete will decolonize this false narrative we’ve been force fed to us by whiteness and capitalism that we need prisons (and by extension police) to keep society safe...
It’s an exploitative institution thru and thru that is built & maintained by antiblackness
I saw a fantastic thread on Twitter the other day that explains so poignantly and mind blowingly just how fucked up our shitstems are based on just on topic of employer theft alone...
I saw a fantastic thread on Twitter the other day that explains so poignantly and mind blowingly just how fucked up our shitstems are based on just on topic of employer theft alone...
Ahhh here it is. Brilliant thread. And also indicative of WHO we criminalize and WHAT we find to be criminal,
from that we do not and why.
Funny it should come up cuz I’m in midst of working on wrongful dismissal case of a senior right now being dragged for MONTHS by employer https://twitter.com/djmckenna00/status/1269218616861437952
from that we do not and why.
Funny it should come up cuz I’m in midst of working on wrongful dismissal case of a senior right now being dragged for MONTHS by employer https://twitter.com/djmckenna00/status/1269218616861437952
