Yes I expect Black folk from elsewhere who live here 2 be better when it comes to the racial violence Blackfullas experience. It’s fkn simple.
Deemed neither human nor Black in the place we became human is another form of violence that ur complicit in. You will be called on it.

Don’t accuse us of being divisive or not having a commitment to Black solidarity - that’s gaslighting.

Don’t name us and not tag is in your post about our supposed lack of agency - that’s gutless.

And don’t deploy the names and bodies of Blackfullas brutalised by the state to leverage yourself in an online argument - that’s gammon.

There has to be an ethics of practice here when it comes to anti-racist practice that foregrounds Indigenous sovereignty, and yes that includes critique.

I mean everyone out here *living on stolen lands* acknowledging *unceded sovereignty* but what does that look like and feel like as a daily practice in your articulation of Black solidarity? It’s a legit question that countless Blackfullas been asking for more than a minute now.

I guess that’s the difference with reading Blackness primarily through skin colour rather via bloodlines - which connect us to country. It’s a Blackness that is relational and accountable in a different way.

Thus the call is to be in relationship with us politically intellectually all the time, and not just in the moment of a movement that you can see yourself in.

And it means continuing to grapple with that incommensurability as a settler that Tuck & Yang spoke of as opposed to those settler moves to innocence. This isn’t our first rodeo you know. #DecolonisationIsNotAMetaphor