Thread by @EmmaDabiri

#RishiSunak All “POC” are not the same + it demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding not only of this, but also of history + reality,to interpret todays events as some sort of win 4 “representation”, using language + frameworks appropriated from black American experience

comparing todays events to THE ELECTION (another key distinction lol) of Americas first black President or adapting phrases like black excellence

Can we stop conflating the narrative of black Americans, a formerly enslaved group of people, kidnapped and brought to America in chains, where they went on to build the country physically and culturally,

despite their incomparable contributions being systematically denied and them being systemically locked out of opportunity-

with the experiences of relatively hugely privileged immigrants who have attended elite schools and wield huge amounts of class privilege in comparison to almost everyone else in the country, even if they do happen to not be white !

This is the kind of “discourse” we are left with when there is so much historical illiteracy + completely class analysis is completely eschewed… ludicrous scenes…

Also what is this assumption that all “non-white” people are from economically marginalised backgrounds ? Like there’s no “non-white” elites in the world and there’s never been any powerful empires that aren’t white European ???