#nappyedges

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[ubelyptus]

You are one of my favorite bloggers. I hope you have a great year.

omg! Thank you! *hugs?* You too, I hope your year goes swimmingly! ^___^

[casual-isms]

A PSA from nappyedges

Some of y'all privileged little shits want to know what I do in "real life". Well primarily, I go to college full. I also work two jobs. I'm part of various organizations on campus for black students, women of color, and queer women of color. We organize events to bring activists and artists of color to campus. We hold community, campus wide, discussions about the racist/homophobic bullshit that happens on campus. I spend my time in class arguing with ignorant fuckers about the same issues presented on this blog. I'm currently doing a research project on Black Christianity. Because progress comes through the spread of new ideas. Dismantling the white supremacist oppressive ideologies presented by higher education is activism. Contributing to the progressive scholarship and research done by people of color is activism. Presenting experience based counter-narratives to the dominant bullshit is activism. I volunteer at various places. I tutor poor kids and set an example of Black excellence for them to aspire to. I work with old people. I collect food for food drives and work at food pantries. I visit incarcerated women and collect clothes and toiletries for those who are released and have no possessions. Because community outreach and community building is a form of activism. And whenever someone around me says some fucked up shit I call them on it. Just like I call you ignorant fuckers out here. And I back my shit up with receipts. I point them to books, essays, articles or I explain my personal experiences.  Most of y'all will dismiss this whole post but here is it. In short, I live and breathe and go to college and uplift and support my peers of color. Activism is not always staging huge occupy protests. Sometimes activism is changing ideologies person by person. --nappyedges 

[dreams-from-my-father]

nappyedges replied to your post: nappyedges replied to your post: So I was watching...

I don’t think we can escape capitalism either. I think it’ll run itself into the ground in 1000+ years like the Roman Empire did. We can only dismantle parts of it.

I see what you mean. I was thinking the same but meanwhile the exploitation will keep on :/

[dreams-from-my-father]

nappyedges replied to your post: So I was watching an interview of Steve Stoute and...

The problem is that capitalism is built on whiteness. So 99% of the time if you want to be a millionaire/billionaire in a consumer based industry you have to cater to whiteness otherwise you won’t make as much money.

Yeah this is what I said. Capitalism in its current state is basically the exploitation of browness to feed whiteness.

The thing is that I have difficulty imagining how capitalism could be defeated given how it absorbs, destroys and consumes everything with ease. This is what we need anti-capitalist theories of race and not that whiteness embedded Marxism. 

And we dont have them right now. What we have is many POC around the world trying to de-construct capitalism but they always take the economic part without realising that most of its influence resides in the political and cultural stem it share with whiteness. 

Capitalism is not simply a away of living or a way of consumption, it is a whole doctrine. And my question was: Can we, people who live in this society, who have already been indoctrinated really escape it? And I am rather pessimistic about it.