#Blackness

READ PINNED. all of it.

cerseiofmoors

Yknow many Indonesians dont know the US racial dynamic. Pulling the “black people can’t be gentrifiers” card while- a little of your currency can afford a luxurious live in Bali,-

#freekeithdavisjr

GoldWomyn

this tweet really got y’all riled up. u.s. imperialism is global. capitalism is global. anti-blackness is global. i’m asking that we think through what escaping america actually means. and how

Uju Anya

UjuAnya

In 5th grade, my son asked me “Mama, is there something wrong with me?” My heart broke, but I kept calm to say no and ask why. White woman teacher

Southern Meff

misanthropicc92

Labour will never get my vote again. Not because of allegiance to Corbyn, but because they clearly have zero energy to address anti-Blackness and Islamophobia. Seeing this play out after

Tamanisha J John

TamanishaJohn

Scrolling through, & whenever ppl try to separate race + class, it’s bc they’re content w/the subjugation of poor non-white ppl. There’s no other reason you’d use class to undermine

Christie

ChristieNold

So much of the conversation about #DisruptTexts necessarily centers the reading lives of Black & brown students.I'm going to do the WW thing of centering whiteness in the conversation for

Jon Aragón

jondoulos

Afro-Latinx People exist. As an Afro-Colombiano, this is personal for me. A THREAD.Imagine what it's like being part of a rich Latinx culture while at the same time not being

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

I’m so, so tired of folks pretending there’s no such thing as phenotypical blackness when it comes to definitions of race—it’s the entire basis of race—all while ppl are getting

jade

divanificent

When people talk about how "Wakanda", both as a historical reimagining and set of aesthetics, is a staging ground for hollow symbolic gestures that romanticise/flatten the many realities of Africa

BigMike360🇹🇿🇦🇺

BMike360

Why do you say this like the Somali community isn’t full of men degenerate itself (not generalized). Yes the fetishisation of Somali women is sad but why go out of

𝓭𝓮𝓿.

DEVandtheCITY

If you’re Black and grew up “spoiled” and/or “bougie” you went through a phase where those two words were very triggering for you, folks loved to call you that to

Pam Keith, Esq.

PamKeithFL

When the GOP uses the term “democracy,” they don’t mean what we mean. They mean the right of white people to impose their will & control government. That is why

yasmin🦋

balanbaalis_

Happy Juneteenth! today especially, i want to see my fellow black immigrants decenter themselves & actively dismantle the anti-Black American tropes our communities live by. we black immigrants use the

Patrick, Not Pat

PresidentPat

I am a Black teacher that perpetrated anti- Blackness in my classroom through “tough love”. I believed that’s what my students needed. It showed up through failing students, being unnecessarily

DeAnna D Cummings

MizzBossLadyDee

Please understand that Anti-Black racism is at the core of the frenzy and pile on about the MN Freedom Fund $30 million. We didn’t ask the ALS ice bucket challenge

Julie Lythcott-Haims

jlythcotthaims

I am Black but was not raised in a Black community. I did not learn about Juneteenth until I was in my 20s. I'd never heard the Black National Anthem

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