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🇯🇲 kokokaraib 🇳🇬

25 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read

The least we can do is demand that the US #StopTheEmbargo
#ItsAVirusToo

1st image credit: Desmond Boylan as used in the NDLA article "The Cuban-American Relationship" (26 January 2018) ndla.no/subject:23/top…

transcription: a car drives past a pro-revolutionary mural saying "Abajo el bloqueo" (English translation: Down with the blockade)

2nd image credit: Cia Pak as used in the UN News article "UN General Assembly renews long-standing call for end to US embargo against Cuba" (27 October 2015)

news.un.org/en/story/2015/…

transcription: the UN General Assembly in session during its vote on A/RES/70/5

third image credit: map made by me using voting record data on A/RES/74/7 from the United Nations Digital Library; visualization done using Datawrapper

digitallibrary.un.org/record/3834943…

transcription: world map with UN General Assembly votes on A/RES/74/7; 187 yes, 3 no, 2 abstain

fourth image credit: "Free COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Illustrations" on the Innovative Genomics Institute website

innovativegenomics.org/free-covid-19-…

transcription: an illustration of the globe embedded in a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle surrounded by other viral particles

fifth image credit: Health GAP article "Expanding Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity Solely Within the Pharma Cartel is a Recipe for Perpetual Vaccine Apartheid and Artificial Scarcity"
healthgap.org/expanding-vacc…

transcription: a health worker draws solution into a syringe

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First things first, some Palestinians are indeed Black.

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why do African Americans and other Black people keep making memes equating the N-slur and 'gringo'? don't they understand it just means 'American' here? is there something I'm missing here?

here are quick answers to all those questions (& more)🧵

[white Anglos do not interact]

1. they *do* know gringo can broadly mean 'foreigner' or '[North] American'
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2b. the obscurity exists precisely b/c of how broad gringo is [see (1)]

3. Beyond (2a), it's particularly insensitive to use the same insult for a settler population and the underclass it controls when the latter don't have systemic power to harm you
4. similar dynamics to that in (3) exist in Latin America, and this must be kept in mind

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