It cannot be overemphasized how fucked up it is that everyone knows Shamima Begum's name, but not the name of Yago Riedijk, the white adult man who groomed and married her when she was just 15
If she was white, she would be a victim (which, in this case, she is) white womanhood = innocent, never held accountable
Instead, we erased her childhood and innocence, as society does with all Black and Brown girls, to vilify her, fitting the gov's racist and punitive agenda
Everyone saying she should be violently executed (which is the exact same reason you claim to hate Shamima and ISIS) I hope you bring this same vim for all the atrocities the British army commit across the world 🙃 (yes they are also brutally murdering people and raping women)
YES it would be different if she was white. The british state views Black and Brown peoples lives as disposable and their britishness as conditional-That is why Shukri Abdi, Belly Mujinga, the windrush generation et al. have no justice but theyre still looking for Madeline McCann
What’s always ignored is that british/US imperialism and historical colonialism literally laid the groundwork for extremist groups like ISIS (The CIA funded Osama Bin Laden in the 80s) ‘we don’t want that terrorism in Britain’ GET OUT OF OTHER COUNTRIES THEN!! Brits out!!
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