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I know anti-blackness plays a significant role, along with the lack of media coverage (which is, again, due to anti-blackness), but this is unacceptable. Many people are dying. The country going through a flooding. Homes are destroyed. Families are displaced. Famine is claiming more lives than the RSF (Rapid Support Forces) and SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) combined.

They need our help!

There is one way you can show your support! Kindly have a look at this fundraiser. It belongs to Eman Abdelrahman (@emooz-8). She is a 25 year old Sudanese and she is raising funds to evacuate. She has been campaigning since January of this year, but she struggles to receive donations to this day! The last one was made 2 DAYS AGO!

Let's pick up the pace and aim for a doable goal once again - 30K in 3 days! As of writing this (Sept 9th), 29,517 CHF has been raised! There is only 483 CHF left to go! Please check your currency exchange. It is in Swiss Franc! ($10 USD = 8 CHF)

There is also a fundraiser for her extended family. Please keep in mind that it is in Singaporean Dollars, so double check with your currency exchange! ($10 USD = $13 SGD)

You can even match me! I've given 5 CHF and $5 SGD!

Verification (#213).

$2,293 / $30,000 SGD

her name was Sonya Massey. she was a human being who deserved to live. say her fucking name. Sonya Massey.

International women's day is coming up and I can't stop thinking about how many women will continue to be globally ignored by western/european powers. I anticipate women across the politician spectrum will be rejoicing how 'far women have come,' without being critically reflexive of how they are often complicit in the empire they reside in -without even blinking towards the women suffering and being killed, raped, and genocided right now in Sudan, as well as in Palestine and the Congo. It's all despicable.

Aaron Bushnell didn't need to rest in power, he already had it and that's why he self-immolated. He literally has classified army documents which he leaked. It is absurd to tell him to rest in power, on top of the fact he's not Black.

The irony is, the Black woman who self-immolated for Palestine 2 months prior was silenced. We don't even know her name. If anyone should've been honoured with 'Rest In Power' it should've been her. Instead everyone let the government silence her without looking into it more. Palestinians talked about her and the government coverup of her act for weeks. She was silenced and white allies let it happen. Now they're fighting tooth and nail to fucking allow 'Rest In Power' to be used for a white guy in the army of all things. HE REFUSED TO HOLD THE POWER HE DID!! HE DOESN'T WANT IT!

I do not have the time to walk anyone through the history of the Black Panther Party movement, their contributions to the power of the people or their influence on the Bay. Here’s some art I found instead from Emory Douglas, who is behind many of the works of art the Panthers would use in their newspapers and posters

And here’s some of Dream’s work, he was Filipino but ran w Black (and Latino) artists which would explain what power they were laying their brother to rest in

Here's the newspaper article he found which includes graffiti artists saying it in 1989. The article doesn't explicitly state the race of the people saying it, but it does refer to one artists, Prime, as a "homeboy", which is some strongly coded language (also racist but that's a given for non-black L.A. reporters).

One might argue that Wikipedia biases towards the example with Dream because he was a more notable figure than the anonymous artists in the newspaper.

But personally, I find it hard to miss that they picked out the first non-black person they could to associate with a phrase that was undeniably created by black people, for black people.

This is your daily reminder that Wikipedia is not a source free of bias and incapable of bigotry. Editors can be, and often are, massive fascists, and they won't be banned as long as they phrase it politely.

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