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hi! so i just have a quick question… what’s the difference between antiblack and racist? like in what context should one be used and the other one not be? is antiblack like a specific way of referring to racism against black people? sorry to bother i just wanted to make sure i know where and when to use them and that i’m doing so correctly

Anti-Blackness is racism that's specifically centered around prejudice against Blackness (and or the Black community). All anti-Blackness is racism and anyone who perpetuates it, is racist.

It's something very unique and can't be compared to any other kinds of oppression. The thing about anti-Blackness is that it's global and deeply rooted across the world. It's something that's so deeply tied to society especially American society, that in order to combat it, it means reforming the entire country.

Like I said anti-Black racism can’t and shouldn’t be compared to other forms of oppression and Black struggles/issues shouldn’t be compared to other communities struggles and issues either. Anti-Blackness is a word only to be used when Black people are facing racism, whether that be systemically, verbally, etc. It exists in every non-Black community and anyone who isn’t Black is just as capable of perpetuating it as white people are.

For example, if a non-Black person co opts the Black Lives Matter movement (saying things like Latinx Lives Matter or Native Lives Matter) or uses the struggles of Black people to boost or shift focus to their own movements. As well as using Black people as mules to carry non-Black movements, expecting us “repay” non-Black communities for their ally ship to the Black community, or co opting words made by Black people to describe the unique oppression that we face. This also includes white queer people appropriating AAVE from Black women and Black queer spaces, which in turn further perpetuates that we “ghetto, loud, and ratchet.”

Another word you should know that is tied to anti-Blackness is misogynoir, which is a specific form of prejudice against Black women. It describes the struggles and oppression that Black women face because we are Black and women. That intersectionality is very specific and also a global issue, which again can be and often is perpetuated by non-Black folks (and Black men.) Misogynoir is something that people like Meg Thee Stallion and Beyoncé frequently face in and outside of the music industry.

I've also made a post about how colorism and misogynoir link!

Sorry this is short but I can’t sum up just how vast and deep something like this is. Anti-Blackness and other forms of it, whether gender specific or not, is a huge global issue, which I’ve barely skimmed the surface on in this post. It's something that continues to perpetuate that Black people (ESPECIALLY Black women) are aggressive, loud, criminals, not worth of love, and that the issues we face aren't real or significant. And also continues to make us targets of the police.

I honestly urge you to click these links, further educate yourself, and boost Black voices if you're looking to actively combat anti-Blackness, call it out/address it, and be anti-racism.

#🗣🗣🗣#I never reblog anything on here anymore but y’all need to understand what antiblackness is #and understand that A LOT of y’all contribute to it. i said what i said

ancestorswatching

In many cultures, ethnic groups, and nations around the world, hair is considered a source of power and prestige. African people brought these traditions and beliefs to the Americas and passed them down through the generations.

In my mother’s family (Black Americans from rural South Carolina) the women don’t cut their hair off unless absolutely necessary (i.e damage or routine trimming). Long hair is considered a symbol of beauty and power; my mother often told me that our hair holds our strength and power. Though my mother’s family has been American born for several generations, it is fascinating to see the beliefs and traditions of our African ancestors passed down. We are emotionally and spiritually attached to our hair, cutting it only with the knowledge that we are starting completely clean and removing stagnant energy.

Couple this with the forced removal and covering of our hair from the times of slavery and onward, and you can see why so many Black women and men alike take such pride and care in their natural hair and love to adorn our heads with wigs, weaves, braids, twists, accessories, and sharp designs.

Hair is not just hair in African diaspora cultures, and this is why the appropriation and stigma surrounding our hair is so harmful.

1dietcokeinacan

This whole “clap for essential workers every day at 7PM from the comfort of our own homes even though they can’t hear us and literally wont benefit from it in any regard” thing is the middle class equivalent of celebs singing imagine. It’s the direct parallel

bossymarmalade

It’s not. We share those stories in our morning meetings at work because we need every fucking little bit of positive support and brightness. Our head clinical nurse told us that his husband goes out on the balcony with the tiniest pan and spoon and barely makes a sound but at least he hears it, and it boosts his spirits. Another nurse who hasn’t been able to go home to her parents because her father’s workplace is (illegally) threatening to lay off anybody who has a health worker in the household? She hears her retired neighbours playing music, cheering, one guy playing a trumpet, and it’s the only thing keeping her afloat.

If you need to be cynical, maybe choose something else instead of trying to get woke points by making comparisons to the universally derided Imagine video.

#ya gotta love it when people turn internet negativity into positivity!#and as a health care worker its much appreciated. trust me.

smallswingshoes

I've seen people talking about remembering how hard doctors, grocers, and cleaning service employees are working right now and I'm so glad for that, but I'd also like to remind people that pharmacy employees are in the same boat.

For example, I work at the busiest pharmacy in my state. We're constantly understaffed and stressed out as it is. Since the pandemic hit, we are more than twice as busy as usual. I'm not exaggerating; those are our numbers. We are actually possibly even more at risk right now than doctors because a doctor can only see so many sick people per day. Us? We see hundreds, maybe even a thousand or more customers per day. Many of them are sick.

I am only one of two senior technicians at my location. (Based on how busy we are, we should probably have at least 4.) On Saturday, I worked for 10 hours. On Sunday, I worked for 12 hours. On Monday, I worked for 12 and half hours. My employer did not force me to; I chose to stay extra because our patients need us.

We are working hard and doing our best. As always, we want to get you your medications. We care. We're doing our best.

And most patients have been really good about it. The number of people thanking me personally for being there for them every day is not small and it makes this job worth it.

But a small handful of patients have been rude, demanding, aggressive, dismissive, and difficult. I have no patience for them. I'm sorry, but I don't.

I'm trying to get acetaminophen for a man's wife who just had a c-section and the store is out of acetaminophen. I'm trying to get antibiotics for children. I'm trying to get the woman who burst into tears because we didn't have any albuterol inhalers and they just went on backorder a solution.

You? The person yelling at me because you've been waiting 45 minutes when others have been waiting for over an hour?

Sorry, I have no patience or sympathy for you. You can wait.

Please, please, PLEASE be kind to your pharmacy employees. We've been slammed and are doing our best.

We are RISKING OUR LIVES to get you your medicine.

All I ask for is patience and decency.

#hi hello i am a pharmacy technician so i appreciate this #stop yelling at me when yours meds arent done when we’re understaffed. trust me we’re all trying our best

toastbutteregg

remember when we all thought swine flu will end the world?

#when i tell you this took me BACK

amateur

in sixth grade you were either a cucumber melon bitch or a warm vanilla sugar bitch

wizardshark

the fuck does this mean

dr-binchcraft

this is japanese cherry blossom erasure

wizardshark

Hey y'all I still don’t know wtf this means

#warm vanilla sugar!!!!!

elriabrunnr

Not to hijack the weed allergy discourse but also don’t smoke at pride cause if someone has asthma then just the smell of smoke can cause their chests to close up. No amount of inhalers is gonna keep us from being unable to breathe in smoke. Please don’t smoke at pride.

bringingasexyback

just dont smoke in populated public spaces like period. its common courtesy no one wants your secondhand and there are tons of health conditions that can cause a negative reaction to smoke exposure, plus it just smells nasty. this goes for weed, tobacco products, and your dessert flavored vapes too

#as an asthmatic i second this #go take your nasty smoke somewhere else thats not around me binch