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First of all, y'all need to keep âwokeâ, out y'all mouth. Any time Black folks voice the most banal of criticisms of the way whiteness operates in revolutionary spaces, y'all jump out with the âwoke segregationâ bs. It's blatant anti-Blackness.
2nd of all, it's not âyourâ socialist movement lol. Not just cuz you're a streamer who admits to doing no irl organizing. But also cuz the vast majority of socialist movements have not been led by the white middle class.
Existing movements, from Rojava to EZLN to Cooperation Jackson to LandBack struggles, are being led by people of colour. The most y'all have done so far is what, RidinWithBiden? Please.
Third of all, the aggressive bad-faith misinterpretation of Black voices to your overwhelmingly white audience is also staggeringly anti-Black. You're far more charitable to ex-Nazis.
Which brings me to the main point. This isn't segregation. Not only because of the stark difference in power dynamics. But also because noname's take is not about dividing the movement.
All she has made clear is that a lot of white folks are NOT putting in the work to organize their own communities, including dismantling the anti-Blackness within those communities, and are NOT doing enough to confront their own anti-Blackness before claiming solidarity & unity.
As she said, unity with Black people is meaningless, AS LONG AS, the masses of white people are indoctrinated into white supremacy and liberalism. How can you claim to stand united when you've done little to confront the biggest obstacle?
You hadda be organizing ur family, ur friends, and ur (likely overwhelmingly white) neighbourhood if you want unity to be more than performative and empty. Surprisingly, Black folks don't want to have to put up with constant anti-Black microagressions in our revolutionary spaces.
This arrogant refusal to read, listen, reflect, unlearn, and apologize is disgusting to me.
We're obviously not part of the same movement.
We're obviously not part of the same movement.
