#Blackness

Urban Strategies

UrbStrat

Jean-Michel #Basquiat was an American #artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent whose art served as a social commentary on the vast racial and social divisions in American culture. 1/7#BlackHistoryMonth

My name is RAW🔥

_Rawilcox

This whole “The first Black” bullshit has us all in a daze. Imagine being in the hold of a slave ship, then the colonizer comes and unchains you and says,

Southern Meff

misanthropicc92

A Black person doesn’t commit crime against another Black person because they’re Black. Conflating all interpersonal crime as “Black on Black” is how socioeconomic factors alongside contextual details related to

Rafaella Marcus

RafaellaMarcus

A list of things that can all be true at the same time:- Labour have done nothing about anti-Blackness in the party as per the report- it's not anti-Semitic to

Charles M. Blow

CharlesMBlow

This is so personally devastating to me: the black male vote for Trump INCREASED from 13% in 2016 to 18% this year. The black female vote for Trump doubled from

FUBU

chipotalosa

Chief Batton referred to Choctaw Freedmen as African Americans even though our ancestors didn’t live in the United States until 1907 and then tried to erase our existence to put

try jesus, don’t try me

zarimx

I can see the point about xenophobia, but I don’t think Black Americans descendant from US chattel slavery getting recognized for our unique history in this country is a bad

Malaika Jabali

MalaikaJabali

y’all if it wasn’t ”defund” used as a scare tactic, it would be something else.it’s the not word, it’s the Blackness associated with it. stop tying yourselves into knots tryna

nita ✨✨

_ancynita

We can raise awareness for Native issues without comparisons. We have a right to support w/o stepping on other movements for visibility. That only hurts every one involved. anti-Capitalism and

sil thee enby

nonbinaires

it's my radical opinion that's true but I'm tweeting it now bc I'm feeling chaotic hour time. maybe delete later thread. lesgeddit! yt overconsumption in kpop fandom is just compensation

Ms. Sn@cks

HenriettaSnacks

Many people who are mentioning it are clearly doing so as either a "that's what she gets" message or to point out hypocrisy when it comes to Blk players, the

Nicholas Guyatt

NicholasGuyatt

It's dumb to be surprised by anything these days, but the fact that the Washington Post thinks whiteness is a "distinct cultural identity in the United States" means that one

Stacy, Librarian-in-Residence

DarkLiterata

Digital blackface is a thing. Not knowing about doesn't excuse it, and learning about it can help you recognize it and avoid it. Whiteness is uncomfortable to acknowledge and grapple

WAP for abolition™️

zwingham

Sept 8-9, I’ll be participating in the #ScholarStrike. Here’s a thread of articles that touch on race, racialization, and/or blackness outside of the U.S., primarily in the MENA region This

burn down the world for Angel Unique

disrupthehuman

in chapter 5 of _Wage Labour and Capital_, Marx asks the question "What is a Negro slave?"and answers with "A man of the black race. The one explanation is worthy

Terry Biggs

TeeBiggs

Apparently, this peach fritter and large coffee has me thinking aloud:Despite centuries of systemic racism and abuse, Black people hold the Democratic party together. Specifically, Black women are the spine,

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