Anti-Black Natives really think that most of their movements in the last century were on their own, when really Black solidarity, Black scholarship, and Black theories influenced how we engaged in the public sphere around liberation.
A lot of y’all love to bring up AIM, when that happened post-Civil Rights Movement, which arguably influenced how people resist and challenge colonizing government structures, especially during a time many people were grappling with unlearning anti-Blackness.
Black Lives Matter, as an org and movement, has always included Indigenous sovereignty and has always been in solidarity with many Indigenous social movements since their founding.
And what have we, as non-Black Natives done in return?
And what have we, as non-Black Natives done in return?
Many of us, non-Black Natives, have complained about that “lack of visibility and support,” others have appropriated the movement, recycling anti-Black sentiments, and others have disregarded Black influence on our scholarship,
And those are contemporary responses.
And those are contemporary responses.
Historically, many Nations benefited from the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and although I have no idea how my Nation benefited, my sentiment remains the same.
The most well-known tribes who benefited from chattel slavery were the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw.
The most well-known tribes who benefited from chattel slavery were the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw.
I’m not going to get into the particularities of this, yet some accounts who engage with this history with a lot of love and care and who are Black and Native are the following:
@chipotalosa
@realtaynorman
@AwkwardRambler
@blackpeopleandc
@chipotalosa
@realtaynorman
@AwkwardRambler
@blackpeopleandc
