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"You are free to say whatever you want to say in this country, but that does not make you immune to the social ramifications that come as a result of what you said.”
“For some people in this country, our childhood mistakes end up getting us killed. And for others in this country, there’s no accountability whatsoever."
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
People don’t say BlackLivesMatters sucks, because we’re “anti-black.” We are against BlackLivesMatters because everyone who is for it is FULL OF SHIT. You lie, you have a hypocritical mindset, and YOU ARE SELFISH. We say asians, native americans, etc. need attention too, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY RACE THAT MATTERS. You people act like everything needs to be centered around you! You ignore every single race around you and say, I’m the one being oppressed! See that black girl in human trafficking?? “THIS MEANS WE NEED TO SAVE OUR BLACK WOMEN FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!” You people representing BlackLivesMatter take one situation and make it ALL about you! There other races around the world that have to go through shit and STILL go through shit. You don’t KNOW what racism IS!!! You’ll make anything an issue about you and you’ll only mention “history” when it actually benefits you, but even that you twist around and create lies out of it. You’re just a toxic community full of people who do nothing but harrass people, make lies, and act like complete hypocrites. You’re racist, you’re selfish, and you people are DISGUSTING for making every single problem in the world about YOU.
I’m like… nonblack and Asian… but pls go on about how I make everything about Black people, you’re funny. Also Black activists have stood in solidarity with Native Americans and Asians, and spoken against the deaths of nonblack people at the hands of police.
So like if you get this salty about Black people speaking up and organizing around an issue that disproportionately affects them while harming no other group’s efforts to stand for justice and lending a hand wherever possible… then yeah, you’re antiblack as fuck.
GORL I CAN’T
Why does this not surprise me
Honestly posts like this and the latest nonsense over here genuinely have me thinking that nonblack people will hate Black people more than they will EVER hate white people, their actual oppressors. There’s no other explanation for the vitriol we constantly receive from y’all.
I’m just trying to figure out why at this point, is it because we won’t do the work it takes to start a whole ass movement for you? Or maybe it’s because playing nice with the blacks won’t get y’all any closer to the top of the racial hierarchy the same way it would being friends with white people?
Either way I’m fucking sick of it
Nonblack POC have got to do better. This post was intended to be directly about nbpoc, though white people pull that shit too of course (esp. using Native Americans as a weapon against Black people while never giving a shit about Native issues). I have seen sooo many nbpoc, especially Asians, say the shit in the OP and I got sick of it, which was the direct impetus for the original rant.
Asians want the benefits of white supremacy and that’s just a fact. Rather than do the hard work of dismantling white supremacy we would rather punch down at Black people, hoping that’ll get us favor with white people. We want to be quasi-white, off-white, whatever you want to call it, passing ourselves off as non-intimidating and acceptable to white people in comparison to Black people and Latines. Parroting the invalidation of Black people’s pain is just one of the tactics we use to show white people we have their interests at heart and can be trusted. Our antiblackness is corrosive and violent; we have young African refugees in Korea getting “black pig” and “die” scrawled on their desks by their classmates, we have Indians organizing in mob violence against Africans. We need to introspect, apologize, make amends, change, and unlearn. It’s the only way to reclaim our humanity from this hatred.
“Somebody in the crowd fired a pistol and the people again started to scream hysterically, ‘Kill the niggers! Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!’ The mob started to throw stones on top of my car. So I opened the door of the car and I put one foot on the ground and I stood up in the door holding an Italian carbine. All this time three policemen had been standing about 50 feet away from us while we kept waiting in the car for them to come and rescue us. Then when they saw that we were armed and the mob couldn’t take us, two of the policemen started running. One ran straight to me, grabbed me on the shoulder and said, ‘Surrender your weapon! Surrender your weapon!’ I struck him in the face and knocked him back away from the car and put my carbine in his face and told him that we didn’t intend to be lynched. The other policeman who had run around the side of the car started to draw his revolver out of the holster. He was hoping to shoot me in the back. They didn’t know that we had more than one gun. One of the students (who was 17 years old) put a .45 in the policeman’s face an told him that if he pulled out his pistol he would kill him.The policeman started putting his gun back into the holster and backing away from the car and he fell into the ditch. There was a very old man, an old white man, out in the crowd, and he started screaming and crying like a baby, and he kept crying and he said, ‘God damn, God damn what is this God damn country coming to that the niggers have got guns, the niggers are armed and the police can’t even arrest them?!’ He kept crying and somebody led him away through the crowd.” (1)
“It took me a long time to understand his feeling. Now I realize why he was crying. Because the gun had been the thing that had always kept them on top, and the police power. And he could see that slipping away, and his way of life was going. And this is why he was crying. And this is why I named my book “Negroes with Guns.” (1)
Part 3
