Wow I just LOVE how the diaspora war on twitter/in person wanna slander Black Americans living in the U.S. But still benefit from our struggle and fight living here. I don’t understand how Black people gonna stand for Adele + Chet Hanks over ya own people. Gonna be a long thread.

It actually starting to annoy me...”we got bigger problems going on.” BUT SOMEHOW some of y’all be the same ones to not have anything to say as it relates to our “bigger problems.” It’s the “victim blame” mindset for me.

When actually these bigger preoblems are a representation of how oppressive the United States has been against Black Americans. To the point where everyone else benefits from our fight for civil rights and inclusion in our “own” supposed country.

These said “bigger problems,” once you come here or are here become your problems as well. One thing, our white peers and counterparts will put us side by side and not tell the difference between us. Rather than arguing all the time we should think about the bridges between us.

And if we wanna y’all about “bigger problems.” Make no mistake—Black oppression happening globally and we still having diaspora wars. If we wanna get into the tea...how Black nations can you name running itself without European, Chinese, or U.S. imperialism/forced influence?

If we ain’t talkin global Black Liberation I don’t wanna here about. And this thread is not to say Black Americans are in the clear because we’re not. But I think we as a people need to be more focused on systems of power that oppress us collectively.

And let’s not pretend that the Black Civil Rights movement didn’t play a role in global liberation movements. And the cross-collaboration organizing. The energy we spend arguing over stupid stuff we could all pick up A BOOK! And learn each other’s history.

And some of the most influential “African Americans” to in the U.S were of clear Carribean and African Descent. If we continued to be not unified as a people we’re going to get nowhere. Let’s face our traumas + issues with each other because it’s deeper than Adele and Chet Hanks.

There has always been a symbiotic relationship between the cultures of the African diaspora. It’s actually very easy to see, hear, and feel if you pay attention. Pan Africanism + Civil Rights are intertwined. All this slander towards each other is the chicken and the egg.

It’s mutually reinforcing each other. From the rhetoric of “laziness” to the rhetoric of “uncivilized.” We do the work of our oppressors for them. Think we all need to simmer down and focus on connecting rather than fighting. And I know without the Haitian Revolution first!

But I raise now that to say look at the culture of the some of south (NOLA/South Carolina). So much of it was influenced by things known as Caribbean culture. At the end of the day as I said globally our people are suffering. As a collective we are not thriving. We are not free.

I have to imagination a future better than this one cause this ain’t it!
As a sociologist possessing the sociologial imagination and as a deeply spiritual person. WE ARE ALL CONNECTED. The “bigger problem” is how we all don’t see it clearly. No one is free until we all are free.