If you're Jamaican 🇯🇲 and wondering why we should care about non-Black struggles in Palestine 🇵🇸, read this thread
First things first, some Palestinians are indeed Black.
The Israeli occupation also oppresses Black Jews, and migrant workers/refugees from the African continent. Bedouins in Palestine are often Black
Even African Hebrew Israelites are marginalised and without recognition
Apr 25, 2021 • 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)
Feb 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Putting abortion to a referendum is clearly cowardice when Jamaica only had one prior: on leaving the West Indies Federation
#AbortionStandJA
It also implies the whole nation - not just all those capable of getting pregnant and women generally - has a reproductive health interest in its decriminalisation
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'
2a. but the words are connected (not equated) b/c specific expressions of anti-US sentiment obscure generalised anti-Blackness
2b. the obscurity exists precisely b/c of how broad gringo is [see (1)]
