We've been seeing a lot of classism these last few days on the Twitter streets from our own people.

They view themselves as better than other Black people because they were "lucky" enough to get a tertiary education.

Lemme tell you y'all something about classism..

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Classism is more dangerous to Black people than it could ever be to white people.

Classism in the Black community keeps some believing they can educate and earn their way out of oppression.

It has them believing that if they speak, write, dress and otherwise present themselves to the approval of white South Africa, they can class themselves out of systemic oppression.

And they're all too content to discard those who aren't educated or financially secure enough.

They are essentially willing to offer the most vulnerable of the Black community as sacrificial lambs to improve their own condition in the white supremacist hierarchy..

We have a lot of Black folks out here making careers out of being anti-Blackness crusaders who don’t really like Black people, who aren’t invested in building up Black communities or even advancing a world that reflects Black peoples images and interests.

They come to Twitter to rage against the white spaces, white communities and white institutions where they experience their Blackness as barring them from the full advantages of white privilege, which they feel their exceptionalism deserves

They are not upset Black people are disadvantaged, per se; they are upset that bona themselves as "better Blacks" are disadvantaged.

You will rarely, if ever, see them talking or writing about edifying Black spaces, Black institutions, poor Black communities or poor Black people

They don’t talk about specific Black communities or specific Black regions they are deeply connected to, just generic appeals to ending anti-Blackness, by which they often mean ending it in yt spaces they have not been welcomed into in their manic rush to get away from Black folk

Because they view Blackness through the prism of whiteness they simply can’t see Blackness or Black people fully.

Their vision is further obscured by their disinterest and lack understanding of the deep structures of Black people and their ability to adapt, improvise and..

...find ways to transcend, so they fail to grasp the existential genius of Black joy and it’s liberatory possibilities.

Black people have been through the most here on Earth. And yet, they are still here. Still existing.

Clever Blacks don't see the strength of Black people..

For the record, Pro-Blackness means first and being Pro-Black people, pro-Black Cultures, Pro-Black Love, Pro-Black communities, Pro Black spaces, Pro-Black institutions and Pro-Black self determination and self-defense..

So y'all I'm not surprised at all these young Black people who have such classist views against their own.

The only people they praise and value is abelungu. They don't care about Black people.

What they don't get is yh the Black race CANNOT survive with individualism..

We simply don't have the luxury of individualism. Everything we do has to benefit our people as a whole because this white supremacist system affects all of us.

Anyway if you've come this far, thanks for reading this long ass thread

-Àdísà
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