#reacism

[en-tei]

There needs to me talk and attention to what is happening in the UK. It's not just Belfast, it's the ENTIRE UK. The right-wing marches in England supported by Elon Musk and led by Tommy Robinson that happened last year and this year. It is majority Africans, Asians and Muslim immigrants being targeted to the point you can't walk in the streets, but they are going after ANYONE. Turkish, Ukranians, West Indies, anyone different is being target but you also have these racists own people, who they "protecting", getting caught in the crossfire. Breaking into people homes, destroying shops and looting, even threats towards people children. I myself have been told to stay home and have family home worried and I will be avoiding unless necessary.

Belfast knife attack disorder: I will never get over watching my home of 13 years burn down

A night of disorder in Belfast saw people forced to flee their homes, in protests that followed a knife attack in the north of the city.

Armed men have set up anti-migrant checkpoints and are searching cars.

I will be uploading videos from other socials to bring more awareness.

[protoslacker]

Despite the evidence, there is an active conspiracy to silence survivors and whitewash history.

Nick Estes in The Guardian. My relatives went to a Catholic school for Native children. It was a place of horrors

After the discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former school for Native children in Canada, it is time to investigate similar abuses in the US

(I read this last night and  followed up with some additional reading about St Joseph’s Indian school in Chamberlain, South Dakota Estes writes writes about in this piece. But I notice that I tucked it away somehow in my memory. It was the reporting on the SCOTUS decsion in the Arizona voting suppression case that  case that jogged my memory.   As we learn more about this painful legacy, it’s necessary to be witnesses to the awful truth.)

[blackwomenconfessions]

Leslie Jones being attacked on Twitter really upsets me. And I don’t know what upset me more the fact that she was attacked in such a way or the fact that no one of importance seems to be taking a stand for her. Not even the other cast members. There’s even a fake account going around pretending to be her saying God awful things. Clearly fake and still she’s being attacked. Regardless of whether you agree with how she plays her role in Ghostbusters or any other role or if she’s playing into some kind of black stereotype she still doesn’t deserve that kind of cruelness. Where is black Twitter in her defense? Where is the collective sending her good vibes and standing with her? The silence hurts me and all I’m thinking is if she was skinny, lighter or conventionally pretty then there would be people coming to her defense. But because she doesn’t fit into what is thought to be an acceptable black actor because she acts her roles a certain way, I also kind of feel as if her attacks or being ignored on purpose. But no matter what she still doesn’t deserve this kind of hate. She’s still a person.

Even with her acting I kind of don’t see the problem. I mean I do in the “we’re trying to distance ourselves away from that stereotype” but Jones reminds me of a lot of my family and friends. Some cousins went to see Ghostbusters and loved patty. And nothing is wrong with them. I know to them and to me it’s not a stereotype, it’s just the way they are. It’s real for them. Not them catering to white people and “setting us back as a people”. They’re black, loud and proud to be both.

This just showed me that you gotta be a certain kind of black for other black woke people to help you or defend you. You can’t be loud or “ghetto” and you have to look a certain way. Be a certain way. Because as soon as you deviate from the “New acceptable black Woke Edition” you somehow betrayed the community. You can get dragged on Twitter by the worse racist, then dragged by others for fitting some perceived stereotype (aka not the New acceptable black Woke Edition) and have no one come to your defense.

And she’s so nice too. Left Twitter in tears because of what happened. And still silence. Smh but let some other black actor get unjustly attacked bet they’ll get defended.

[anarcho-bootyist]

This is what imperialism looks like. 

[dreadmanjack]

And he's a vegetarian, what more could you want ?