Thread by @sucolorfavorito

the African diaspora exists to maintain this order & paradox.Although, we experience ordinary systemic violence on different levels depending on location, class appartenance, ethno-racial and social mobility:

https://twitter.com/sucolorfavorito/status/1311351245945352194

the type of violence we experience is nothing compared to the one experienced in America and particularly on the African continent. America is a settler colony and Europe is the colonizing force responsible for it’s inception.

So it is anti-indigenous + anti-Black violence that conditions: it’s existence and durability in geo-political spaces it chooses to terrorize and appropriate.

Europe is a geo-political order that constantly shifts it’s positionality on the world stage depending on it‘s colonial & imperial objectives. Mostly, the aftermath of the II world traumatized a whole generation of Europeans who were forced to rumble with anti-jewish racism

and that created a global brand of white european performative contestation over race and colonialism that absorbs radical political yearnings of colonized people who are accused of causing dysfunction, unrest and division

when they call out the numerous strategic transmutations of colonial politics internally and externally. In western Europe, the belief that, living in a post-racial society, prevails because of the erasure and romanticization of colonial past + presents, leaving a majority

of the white European population believing in their “acquired” moral superiority, all while committing racist violence systemically and systemically because of it’s politically conceived nature. Europeans master the art of diplomatic terrorism

It’s what can be coined “amicable racism” or paternalist racism.

They have been socialized to believe in our inferiority and thus can co-exist with us violently because our existences have never threatened the political order enough for them to create massive repressive state mechanisms of violence because they do that on the African continent

already. When we talk about racist violence, we are relegated to the racism-o-meter, that will always weaponize the american experience to deny the systemic nature of European imperialism world wide.

As long as America exists as the perfect contrast, our Afro- European experiences will constantly be used for politically reactionary intentions: we exist simultaneously as a testimony of Europe’s positive socio-cultural evolution and it’s excesses..