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Being Nilotic (Dark skin) in #Ethiopia
Growing up in #Gambella, I have always been curious about the second-class citizen treatment the #Anuak people have always faced. We were never seen or treated equally with the rest of lighter skinned highlanders. The same thing could be 1/
Growing up in #Gambella, I have always been curious about the second-class citizen treatment the #Anuak people have always faced. We were never seen or treated equally with the rest of lighter skinned highlanders. The same thing could be 1/
said for the dark-skinned people of #Benishangul who have also faced genocide and mistreatments from the #TPLF and Derg regime. Why are the Nilotic treated differently in Ethiopia? This goes back to the Abyssinian Empire. During the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia,2/
Boah kennt ihr noch diese Doku über ein Paar das ein Pflegekind wollte und dann erfahren hat, dass es schwarz ist und erstmal wissen wollte "wie dunkel denn" und dann in der ganzen Familie nachgefragt hat ob die mit dieser "Bürde" zurecht kommen würden. Das war so krank
Das Kind war dann mixed race also haben die Eltern es genommen...Dass das Schwarzsein fast deal-breaker war, war rassistisch. Dass sie sie nicht genommen hätten wenn sie noch dunkler gewesen wäre zeigt, dass nicht alle schwarzen die gleichen Rassismuserfahrungen machen #colorism
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Trump is not running against any of the women he attacked in his speech but he is elevating them to victim status. AOC is viewed “very unfavorably” by 74 percent of voters who supported Trump in 2016, while Omar is at 65 percent and Tlaib is at 58 percent. d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_upload…
This is the "Strawman", "an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument." Trump has added insult of race, religion, national origin, age and... sex. He has summoned the cucks. #Cucknation
AOC and these women are better known to Republicans than Democrats due to an intense campaign of derision and belittling by right wing media outlets... simply because they are not old white males but young women of color of ethnic origin. An entire journey into #colorism
