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We are a racist people in #Egypt and we are in deep denial about it.

I wrote this in 2008 after an #Egyptian woman’s racist attack on a #Sudanese girl on the #Cairo metro.

#BlackLivesMatter  #BlackSpring

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What else but racism on Dec. 30, 2005, allowed 100s of riot police to storm through a makeshift camp in central #Cairo to clear it of 2,500 Sudanese refugees, trampling or beating to death 28, including women and children.

#BlackLivesMatter #BlackSpring
What else but racism lies behind the bloody statistics at the #Egyptian border with Israel where 2007-2008 #Egyptian guards have killed at least 33 migrants, many from #Sudan's Darfur region, including a pregnant woman and a 7-year-old girl?

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The racism I saw on the #Cairo Metro has an echo in the Arab world at large, where the suffering in Darfur went ignored because its victims were Black .

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Soon after I moved to #NYC in 2002, I began a relationship with a Black man. We lived together for 3yrs. Very soon after we became a couple, I insisted we boycott Arab (Yemeni, I believe) owned stores in our neighbourhood because of their anti-Black racism.

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The men behind the counter in those stores didn’t know I speak Arabic. And when Marcus and I would go in together, they would say the most disgusting racist shit about Black men and why I was with a Black man. I confronted them. Shamed them. And boycotted them. #BlackLivesMatter
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