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No one believes Black ppl when we say we're afraid, in pain, or that we have anxiety, depression, OCD, claustrophobia, CPTSD, etc
TBH the world does its best to trigger our disabilities/pains even after we've clearly IDd them then makes up random shit after torturing/killing us.
TBH the world does its best to trigger our disabilities/pains even after we've clearly IDd them then makes up random shit after torturing/killing us.
“Freeing Black Fates & Capturing Black Freedom” properly contextualizes #GeorgeFloyd convos.
CW Black death+genocide, enslavement/incarceration, police+vigilante violence, wyt supremacy, etc
Ten excerpts. Pls use discretion.
Full piece: http://bit.ly/captureblackfreedom
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![“Freeing Black Fates & Capturing Black Freedom” properly contextualizes #GeorgeFloyd convos.CW Black death+genocide, enslavement/incarceration, police+vigilante violence, wyt supremacy, etcTen excerpts. Pls use discretion.Full piece: http://bit.ly/captureblackfreedom[IDs=alt text]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EelShJcWkAI8Mi0.png "“Freeing Black Fates & Capturing Black Freedom” properly contextualizes #GeorgeFloyd convos.CW Black death+genocide, enslavement/incarceration, police+vigilante violence, wyt supremacy, etcTen excerpts. Pls use discretion.Full piece: http://bit.ly/captureblackfreedom[IDs=alt text]")
CW Black death+genocide, enslavement/incarceration, police+vigilante violence, wyt supremacy, etc
Ten excerpts. Pls use discretion.
Full piece: http://bit.ly/captureblackfreedom
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". . .collective complex traumas-a naming of that which occurs after centuries of stolen, swinging, swollen Black bodies is followed by erasure of white supremacist violence & criminalization, pathologization, & monetization of Black people's fights, runs & pleas for our lives."
..surrounded by reminders of the danger we are in, of the unmattering of our lives-wholly aware that our fates are predetermined in ways that others’ are not. Generations of violence & injustice rob us of the quiet enjoyment of our lives, our freedom & innocence, our loved ones..
We have been expertly gaslit for generations.
. . . after centuries of Black folks holding, living and surviving through the same terrors . . . white supremacists are still telling us to teach our children how to try not to get killed instead of teaching theirs how not to kill.
. . . after centuries of Black folks holding, living and surviving through the same terrors . . . white supremacists are still telling us to teach our children how to try not to get killed instead of teaching theirs how not to kill.
...White supremacy removes the context of the conditions in which we live & survive while hyper contextualizing-often dramatizing-experiences of white power holders...[T]his... often occurs by theft of the legitimate emotions of maimed & murdered Black/Indigenous peoples.
![...White supremacy removes the context of the conditions in which we live & survive while hyper contextualizing-often dramatizing-experiences of white power holders...[T]his... often occurs by theft of the legitimate emotions of maimed & murdered Black/Indigenous peoples.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EelZXSPXgAI2FQo.png "...White supremacy removes the context of the conditions in which we live & survive while hyper contextualizing-often dramatizing-experiences of white power holders...[T]his... often occurs by theft of the legitimate emotions of maimed & murdered Black/Indigenous peoples.")
White supremacy, anti-Black racism & racial terror-which includes but is not ltd to police/vigilante violence & terror-has led to generations of unnamed racism-based stress & trauma. This...leads to & exacerbates anxiety, depression, heart conditions, countless other disabilities
We teach our children to dissociate just to get home safely. . .
We can’t win and every part of us knows it.
There is something perverse, pathological and unspeakably inhumane about a society that requires an entire group of people to dissociate just to survive.
We can’t win and every part of us knows it.
There is something perverse, pathological and unspeakably inhumane about a society that requires an entire group of people to dissociate just to survive.
They must tell the truth about the grotesque & irredeemable past & present of this “nation” if oppressed ppls are to ever achieve any semblance of justice.
..we must unrstnd the inextricable links bt disability & other marginalized identities & uproot ableism fr our communities.
..we must unrstnd the inextricable links bt disability & other marginalized identities & uproot ableism fr our communities.
Black people in the united states have always experienced
Perpetual Traumatic Racism Based Stress
This is NOT a disorder.
It is the ordered, legitimate & objectively reasonable response to CENTURIES of virulent anti-Black racism.
Perpetual Traumatic Racism Based Stress
This is NOT a disorder.
It is the ordered, legitimate & objectively reasonable response to CENTURIES of virulent anti-Black racism.
