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When racism rears its ugly head on social media, leave it to ‘Black Twitter’ to clap-back and upend rhetoric meant to denigrate black folks, and turn it into a clever and teachable moment steeped in the type of sardonic satire meant to make perpetrators of said racial insensitivity, feel stupid for having ever tried. Last week, the #BlackPrivilege hash-tag gained momentum on Twitter, reportedly created as a response to the discovery of a (neglected?) tumblr blog and, perhaps, just being plain tired of having to ward off cries of “reverse-racism” whenever black people speak out loud about the lived experiences and daily microaggressions many of us have to navigate . “This Is Black Privilege” … an anonymous tumblr blog comprised of a jumble of murky, awkwardly written non-facts that seem as if they were culled from the library stacks of Ignoramus University.
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I've Brought You Peace Through Violence and War: Everything about white pride is racist and destructive. Put aside what...

fivehundredyearshaventbrokenme:

Everything about white pride is racist and destructive. Put aside what you consider to be “white” for a second and listen. Whiteness is not a static category nor is it natural. It’s a social construct that once did not include people we know consider to be white, like the Irish. So it is a social…

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I've Brought You Peace Through Violence and War: Let's solve everything the way we "solve" racism.

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Yes, maybe the house is on fire, but when you point it out, you just give power to the fire. If you ignore it, it will run out of things to burn and stop on its own.

I feel like the way to end cancer is to stop making an issue out of it. Cancer kills people, but treatment…

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THIS HAS ME WEAK!!!!

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So much truth here. How can you not reblog? 

Tupac.

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thousandyearsbunny: fuckyeahfeminists: wretchedoftheearth: lol I hate white men I love when white people say things like race doesn’t matter/we’re all humanz! etc. because it’s pretty much implying that my race is a negative and that you’re okay pretending I’m as good as a white person also he’s 5’ 6” sry even if you weren’t  a cumstain you’re short as fuck and height means everything to me  Yes, I could always tell my race mattered to someone messaging me on OKC because they always brought it up that it “didn’t matter.” Uh, way to give yourself up dude. If it didn’t matter YOU WOULDNT HAVE MENTIONED IT. I asked white dude who was trying to holla at me if he’s ever dated a non-white woman and she said “No, but that kind of stuff doesn’t bother me.” I didn’t ask if it bothered him, I simply asked if he has. I wanted to know because being Native is a huge part of my identity and I don’t want to date someone who’s going to dismiss that and at best “not be bothered” by it.  Fuck all this shades of gray shit. Why is it that they only know to highlight the differences or ignore it? They don’t know anything in between such as respecting my culture as a part of who I am. Zoom

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lol I hate white men

I love when white people say things like race doesn’t matter/we’re all humanz! etc. because it’s pretty much implying that my race is a negative and that you’re okay pretending I’m as good as a white person

also he’s 5’ 6” sry even if you weren’t  a cumstain you’re short as fuck and height means everything to me 

Yes, I could always tell my race mattered to someone messaging me on OKC because they always brought it up that it “didn’t matter.” Uh, way to give yourself up dude. If it didn’t matter YOU WOULDNT HAVE MENTIONED IT.

I asked white dude who was trying to holla at me if he’s ever dated a non-white woman and she said “No, but that kind of stuff doesn’t bother me.” I didn’t ask if it bothered him, I simply asked if he has. I wanted to know because being Native is a huge part of my identity and I don’t want to date someone who’s going to dismiss that and at best “not be bothered” by it. 

Fuck all this shades of gray shit. Why is it that they only know to highlight the differences or ignore it? They don’t know anything in between such as respecting my culture as a part of who I am.

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talknurdy2me: Source: Africanisms in American Culture (Holloway) Zoom

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Source: Africanisms in American Culture (Holloway)

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If we think about the importation of Africans into the New World as a whole, rather than strictly into the United States, the most apparent difference that can be seen is that Africans throughout the rest of the Americas were much slower to become Westernized and “acculturated.” All over the New World there are still examples of pure African traditions that have survived three hundred years of slavery and four hundred years of removal from their source. “Africanisms” are still part of the lives of Negroes throughout the New World, in varying degrees, in places like Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, Guiana. Of course, attitudes and customs of the non-continental Negroes were lost or assumed other less apparent forms, but still the amount of pure Africanisms that have been retained is amazing. However, in the United States, Africanisms in American Negroes are not now readily discernible, although they certainly do exist. It was in the United States only that the slaves were, after a few generations, unable to retain any of the more obvious of African traditions. Any that were retained were usually submerged, however powerful their influence, in less recognizable manifestations. So after only a few generations in the United States an almost completely different individual could be born and be rightly called an American Negro.

Amiri Baraka (Blues People: Negro Music in White America)

So after only a few generations in the United States an almost completely different individual could be born and be rightly called an American Negro.

That last sentence is so key to me. It also one of the primary reasons why I get so heated by Black Americans’ appropriation of any and all African cultures in addition to constantly steeping on and other Africans and what they should do in their own countries because they believe all opinions about anything happening in the continent are equal because they belong to the African Diaspora.

It’s also why while I would never pretend that I’m not part of the African Diaspora, I never classify myself as African. I say this as someone who has an entire half of his family from the Caribbean (and I mean that like my father and his sisters were the first to be born in the US) and maintains a lot of the aforementioned Africanisms.

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Wouldn’t this also mean that then we have a distinct form that can also be appropriated from? And I think it is true in many aspects but one might argue about the degrees of those losses. I mean I find it interesting this is very much about a complete stripping of identity and connection and a creation of something new and it became something totally different, wasnt expecting that. I’m wondering which negroes we talkin about

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This is why treading carefully is so important.

Treating Black Americans trying to reconnect to the African parts of their heritage the same as you would a White person wearing an indigenous war bonnet feels off.

That’s not to say I’m on board with those ankh-wearing types. No, no, dear God, no.

However, prescribing a unilateral approach for all Black Americans about how to connect with what is African about themselves raises a lot of questions about the legacy of slavery. I feel deeply uncomfortable with the idea that Black Americans are simply shit out of luck when it comes to attempting to reclaim what was taken from us by slavery in the US.

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Thats what it seems like. Completely. Shit out of luck. Just shut up and sit down. My whole thing is why did you use a Black American man to make this point? He wasn’t talking about it in that way, I am pretty sure. And his generation, Amiri Baraka, which is someone who has plenty of ideas I am sure I do NOT agree with (hows that for Black American monolith?) has different reasons for being on that shit than our generations. Like, my dad’s generation looking to Africa for a place of identity and home existed because things such as segregation and busing and blatant aggressive racism were being hurled at the left and right. The desire to know more about your roots, to forge an identity out of what some perceive as nothingness, was a big deal at the time. And let’s not forget one of the biggest Back to Africa supporters was not Black American, but JAMAICAN. So now, where are these ankhtified kids of my generation? These pluck and pick from the huge continent of Africa kids? Cause the Black American kids I know aren’t looking to Africa for shit anymore. In fact, we don’t have enough education about Africa to look towards it for something we are apart of constantly. And this is my experience, but yea.

And I think you and Jayvin hit on something real too. Appropriation is the theft of a cultural item and using it for self-fulfillment. But it’s also a genocide victory dance. It’s a we destroyed and crushed you and now we are going to wear you clothes and use your customs while ridiculing you for the doing the same. We have no enacted a cultural or real genocide on African peoples ever. We are the descendants and recipients of genocide as Black Americans and formerly enslaved peoples descendants. It is different even from those who come here and use our cultural art forms and forms of speech and STILL CLAIM WE HAVE NO CULTURE. Asian kids, white kids, Latino kids and Black kids not from the U.S. appropriate from a culture they believe is amazing and yet, not worthy of being called a culture. And I think that someone who is in that position grasping for something that is considered cultured and part of something real, there are totally different dynamics. Longing to fill a whole and crushing the defeated into the dirt are two different things. Appropriation is the latter. While I think plenty of Black Americans have misguided ideas on the continent and some who do steal from cultures who aren’t there’s, is this the majority of us? Since when has Black Americans been synonymous with fake ankh wearing dashiki and kente clothe stealing niggas? Is that all we is now lol? Cause trust, the majority of Black Americans I know aint checkin for none of that. Even if we don’t think we have our own, we often aren’t coming for yours. 

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I’ve told the kids in the ghettos that violence won’t solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; “Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?” After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government

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Suppose a man makes unwanted social advances to a woman in, let’s say, a restaurant or theatre, and she eventually has to tell him loudly or angrily to get lost. She is the one who will be perceived as rude, hostile, aggressive, and obnoxious. His verbal aggression and invasiveness are accepted and expected; her rudeness (or mere curtness) in getting rid of him is noticed and condemned. One of our great myths is that a “real lady” can and should handle any difficulty, defuse any assault, without ever raising her voice or losing her manners. Female rudeness or violence in resistance to male aggression has often been taken to prove that the woman was not a lady in the first place, and therefore deserved no respect from the aggressor or sympathy from others.
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i don’t hate you bc you’re white i hate you bc being white has blinded you and you have been taught to be a racist piece of shit and then you expect me to fix it for you

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Reverse racism is like when an antelope tramples down a lion in order to escape, and all the other lions around it call out “Reverse carnivorism! REVERSE CARNIVORISM! JUST AS BAD AS THE LIONS EATING YOU!”

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I've Brought You Peace Through Violence and War: WHITE PEOPLE TAKE UP SO MUCH SPACE!!!!

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I was trying to think of some analogy like “they want their whiteness to consume everything” but there’s nothing analogous about it; that’s exactly what the game is!

They really do want their whiteness to become all, to become everything while considering it to be nothing….

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