Black Americans are fetishized in Europe. That’s facts... there is a level of privilege (more in terms of accessibility) that is offered to them because of the romanticization + commodification of Black cultural life as an accessible good
that makes people feel “attracted” to them as a more respectable, comfortable & accessible branding of “Blackness” to consume, obviously positively contrasting the dehumanizing experiences of migrant africans who are seen as inferior
And that’s on people treating me differently, when they hear me speaking Canadian English vs. when I speak any other way or language.
this is just to say that, no matter where you are in the world, while experiencing transformative blackness + anti-blackness simultaneously, you will have to contend with the intersecting systems of oppression that condition our existence. it is a constant.
what matters is where, why and for whom you situate your radical political work. it really comes down to your political positionality and what you have decided to do with your Black consciousness. We can’t run from imperialism, it has been everywhere.
trying to run somewhere to get a better life is a neo-liberal-individualist-colonial project and a failed get-out sequel.You can’t just decide to leave if you aren’t willing to strategically do so for a better chance at being at service to your global blk community
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