#Blackness

park jamal⁷

chijiminssi

the way that no one even CONSIDERED how current events are affecting the psyche of black ARMY and instead are making expose threads off of valid initial concerns that their

Guilaine Kinouani

KGuilaine

I was thinking how in the US through specific periods/events e.g. Antebellum, Jim Crow, school to prison pipeline...so you can easily see the morphing of whiteness across time, how as

Yilan

redxyl

China definitely has a long way to go in addressing anti-Blackness. Every non-Black country does. Currently, there has been some concrete action made in regards to the Guangzhou situation. There

alex

KingstonJancro

Hate how we talk about colorism as the less violent cousin to racism. Especially in Jamaica. Colorism does not just order the politics of desirability. It affects everything including who

Chris

thtswhatshesays

I love to feel proud of my blackness, because growing up I was taught that you had to walk, talk, and look a certain way to be “black enough” but

Voto Latino

votolatino

(TW: racist violence) A non-Black Latino held a Black man that was delivering food at gun point. We have to talk about the anti-Blackness that's in our communities. It’s easy

i hate it here

aye_yobri

as a biracial person who, like d*ja, does not know their Black ass daddy & despite this, has somehow managed to avoid being an active member of alt-right chatrooms for

Frankie Huang

ourobororoboruo

Since the start of George Floyd protests I've been thinking about what BLM means to me & trying to understand why many members of Han Chinese diaspora in the US

EM

lipstick_daddy

@ fellow white people: undoing our anti-Blackness is an ongoing, active process. our intentions mean nothing if the impact is harmful. when someone expresses that our actions are/were anti-Black don't

Cheryl Lynn Eaton

cheryllynneaton

I need to comment because this causes multiple problems for black creators and audiences. The first is that it increases wealth disparity with those who are NOT us making money

Young Malcolm ✊🏿

MomodouTaal

Quick points of reflection: Many white converts in the Muslim community experience coddling, are placed on pedestals, or are made into scholars way before their time, whilst Black converts endure

tommy 👼

cockytomatoes

i‘ve seen things like this so i wanna make a thread about it. anti-Blackness is not an individualized act and is a global phenomenon. critical support for China means acknowledging

mi🌿

helloalegria

I honestly think the one drop rule is more harm than good but I’m not about to tell people who to be. it’s important to note, however, that colorism flourishes

Rianna Mathew

MathewRianna

From beauty standards to right wing extremism, Anti Black Racism is an issue that must be challenged in order to break the chain of racism that exists within the South

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Abalisah

Here’s the thing you’re light skinned and so is she. All instances of anti blackness are inherently rooted in colourism and that’s a basic fact. All of the anti blackness

Alex Fitzpatrick

ArchaeologyFitz

I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussions occurring today, but I really want white archaeologists to sit with the looting discourse. I've RTed a couple of Tweets that