Thread by @SingsongRaptor

#BlackLivesMatter be like: stop killing us! Let us live free and in peace! Give us equity! *Sees another marginalized group* hey, hey, hey, them too, give alla dat over there too. Disabled lives? Hell yeah we care, we got them too!

#DisabledLivesMatter :
We don't care about or support Black disabled ppl, their needs or movements, we pretend they don't exist, harass them for speaking up, we know nothing about Black activism past or present, but we want them to talk about our problems and work for us

#DisabledLivesMatter shows that nonBlack disabled ppl don't care about Black ppl. You're angry that we're hypervisible, but the system is trying to destroy and silence us with shallow, performative bullshit. You demand that we talk about you and that we've had enough spotlight.

Accusing us of ignoring other marginalized groups but not even acknowledging our presence in *your* group or the work we do and have done for y'all is trash. #DisabledLivesMatter when #BlackDisabledLivesMatter and you ain't excluded from ours even tho we're excluded from yours.

We need critical analysis of the pervasiveness of antiblackness in leftist and marginalized community movements. So many movements are built on our backs, demanding our labor w/o reciprocation, demanding we lower/abandon ourselves and surrender our collaborative structures

So many movements are angry about our hypervisibility, something we have no control over, and that we use to try and lift others up, and we're expected to completely throw ourselves to the wayside and talk about others and *only* in a way that completely erases us.

And nobody ever blames the privileged and system for the disparity in coverage. No, Black ppl are treated like they're physically restricting every media outlet and personally silencing and hating on other oppressed groups, even when we're part of those groups.

We get told "racism isn't the only thing that matters, make room" as if we weren't already making room, as if we're not already part of the other groups. What everyone actually needs to remember is that racism cannot be erased and affects *everything else* .

And so much of that everything else is literally created or twisted from racism, specifically antiBlack racism and anti-native racism (and the native community has a big antiblackness problem and excludes Black natives a lot). Like all y'all need to leave niggas alone.

We tired and we still caping for you. Every inch we claw and fight for benefits you, and we claw and fight and grit our teeth and bear the brutality and ridicule of hypervisibility for everybody.

And despite the projection and exclusionary abuse we receive from everyone, despite how much what y'all really wanna do is be the oppressor instead of being free, despite how much y'all hate Black ppl and want to subjugate us, we STILL stay steady caping for y'all.

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