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Ernest Owens
MrErnestOwens
REAL TALK: Telling a dark-skinned person that "Blackness is not a monolith" in conversations about colorism, only perpetuates the problem. Time and time again, I find the conversations and concerns
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Don’t Argue With Me If You Dont Have Any Citations
JamelTheCreator
The term 'Jareer' is to West Africans and African-Americans what the 'Akata' is to African-Americans. All of which are another way of saying the hard R. "descriptive" words to identify
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Grace Carter
itsgracecarter
Education is where it starts, teaching our future to celebrate difference instead of dragging it down. We need to stop feeding our children stereotypes of the black person and acknowledge
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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
Is it strange to anyone else that virtually none of the reporting on rising violence in US cities is making links to the economic catastrophe — job losses, evictions —
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Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan
thebrownhijabi
Whilst we all feel heartbroken let’s recognise that if we’re not black it’s our duty to implement real material changes to change the anti black status quo. In the UK
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Studio Glibly
NoTotally
It's true that this murderous teenager gets treated gently by cops on the scene because he's white, but it feels relevant too that the killing he did was symbolic of
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Son of Baldwin (Robert Jones, Jr.)
SonofBaldwin
Whether Kanye West or Bevelyn Beatty, it both saddens and enrages me when Black people perform for or succumb to white supremacist capitalist patriarchy--such that they put their internalized ant-Blackness
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Lesego Tlhabi
LesegoTlhabi
Coconut Kelz is literally a result of feeling like my white friends couldn’t really be my friends if they don’t care and get involved with issues that affect people that
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jade bentil
divanificent
The fact that Kim's "activism" around prison reform, which is actually her as a mega-rich white women cherry-picking the "good" Black people she believes deserve freedom on any given day,
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a Black-passing Latina.
aliciasanchez
Jessica Krug is a white woman, who has been lying for years about Blackness, including saying she's AfroLatina - gaining her social currency, book deals, and tenure in Black studies.
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Pinned Tweet Needs Attn
traderjosephina
My problem with alot of Black shows these days is they are so focused on making it “BLACK” with the AAVE, twitter topics, that Blackness in small acts are ignored.
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#Dear white feminists: I am not the one
Kamalaallday
This reeks of the Willie Horton ad I grew up watching. I grew up watching ppl like Alanna use Blackness as a scare tactic. Black prisoners were depicted as feral
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The White Pube
thewhitepube
finally got round to reading this from @RuffneckRefugee & it is very incredibly good; 'The language of white privilege obscures systemic inequality by reducing it to individual actors'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/20
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jatella
jatella
Patriarchy produces the suffering of Black cishet men as the most legible kind of Black suffering, not because of its Blackness but because of the borrowed institutions of cisness and
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tobes
tobikyere
i don't wanna open up a whole debate but it's about theatre so it probably will.something i'm asking myself more and more with research about #thebook is what constitutes as
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Musa Okwonga
Okwonga
6/ So many of us know a Jessica Krug: a certain type of white woman who is scared that their life is not sufficiently interesting, so they attach themselves to
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