There is literally no daylight between the genocide against Palestine & the daily oppression of being Black in America. I really need folks to understand this. 1/
—and taken by the US govt to murder other Black & brown people, steal their land & give their land to white people. 2/
This is the same racial oppression & exploitation we’ve lived under for centuries.
Our labor is stolen. Our money, lives & children all stolen to profit the white capitalist owner class generation after generation.
But the UN ambassador is a Black woman so it’s OK now! 😀 3/
Black freedom fighters from Malcolm X to Mandela to Angela Davis have spoken clearly on this for decades.
I don’t know what else there is to say. You either side with the century-old system that oppresses & enslaves us (white supremacy & capitalism) or you desire freedom. 4/4
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We need more dialogue about the phenomenon of white people using whatever marginalized identity they can claim as a cover for their racist actions against Black, brown & Indigenous people.
A lot of the professed fear over rising antisemitism is exactly that & we must be honest.
Even the idea that Israel is necessary b/c the USA isn’t a safe place for white Jewish people in 2023 is such a bald face lie.
Black, brown, Indigenous & Muslim people have never been granted the same proximity to whiteness as Jews of European descent.
Extreme gaslighting
And this goes back to people always pretending not to know how modern racism operates, pretending they don’t know racism is primarily about one’s physical appearance, skin tone & how much one resembles Anglo colonizers.
The idea that white people & nations are the only ones with an inherent right to self-defense is yet another byproduct of white supremacy 🤷🏾♀️
Israel has been kidnapping Palestinians & holding them hostage all this time & the world barely batted an eye before Oct 7.
Western white society is upset because they command us to treat the lives of white Europeans, Americans & Israelis with greater reverence than the lives of any Palestinian, Arab, Black, brown or Muslim people.
Literally all of this is about white domination & Black enslavement.
For the world to regard the life of one Palestinian civilian as equal to the life of one Israeli civilian is an affront to the white supremacist world order established by the western colonizers & imperialists.
Again— note the use of terms like “war” & “invasion” to describe the Israeli military storming what is essentially a ghetto that they’ve forced people into.
This is like the USA announcing it’s going to blockade & “invade” NYC because there are yet more “terrorists” there
& also that the millions of people who live in NYC with no way to flee may unfortunately be wiped out in the process.
It’s textbook genocide. No gray there.
Yes, my use of the word “ghetto” is a specific choice
because confining millions of people to a small area & then proceeding to wipe them out
A Black mayor who polices Black people even more violently than his racist white predecessors… progress!
The establishment’s [initial] excitement about Adams was always based on the promise to lock up more people at the behest of the white elite in Manhattan