I know people come from a good place when they express their frustration in comparing the protests which erupted after George Floyd's murder and the total silence in Pakistan for equally horrendous murders. But that other being false equivalency, also obscures rather than clarify

It puts the American public and the political system there at a high pedestal of consciousness where murder of 'one' black person can create that much outcry. This invisibles the centuries of anti-slavery and anti-racism struggle in America and presents the current moment

as rootless and taking place outside a historical context. It also projects one historical, social, economic and political oppression over another. While all oppressions share a universal element, each oppression is exercised through it's own situational particulars.

Balochs aren't the Blacks of Pakistan, nor are Pashtuns. Such comparisons (again done with honest intentions) help to erase the generational trauma of slavery and institutionalized racism in America while also puts faith in spontaneity of public eruption of anger rather than

political organizing. We have our own particular political and historical reality and our oppression is exercised along those axises. While every anti-racist and anti-oppression struggle anywhere in the world should guide and inspire us, projecting other struggles as they are

over our own would stop us from better understanding our situation and thus doing the necessary anti-oppresion organizing. We have to understand other struggles and our own to better organize and fight. Even spontaneous rupture in political consciousness are decades in making.