Thread: I think this is an opportunity to talk about different "pro-black" ideologies. Its past time black people openly have discussions about black "nativism" vs Pan-Africanism and citizenship vs separatists ideology. #icantbreathe #BlackTwitter
While I do understand the natural reaction, anyone telling you that black people need to just "separate" themselves from white folks, respectfully, doesn't what the hell they're talking about. A lot of our communities are already "separate".
..and even if we did build our "own " Chinatown or little Italy. It would still be on U.S soil and subject to laws, white supremacist ideology and white fragility. We've done that before and yall act like y'all don't know what happened. We are here to eat the failures of America
No matter how much we pool money and resources that doesn't stop your co-op store or haberdashery from being susceptible to white terrorism. We don't need our own in that way we need what we are due. Which is full citizenship rights, reparations and protected class status.
Anything short of fighting for #PureReparations is a cop out. Because anything else sounds like " we can't do nothing but run away from the problem or assimilate." No we can fight back the same way our ancestors fought back and that is through grassroots organizing and politics
I don't understand why we feel like we can keep avoiding continuing the legacy of heroes like King and Baker. I don't know why most of us believe that politics as usual can save us or building black can save us or running from our legacy can save us, the diaspora won't save us.
We've always done it ourselves through grassroots organizing and pressuring politicians, institutions and corporations and somewhere we got lost. We should be tired of running and tired of trying to assimilate into a country we built. You want freedom, you have to take it. #ADOS
