ad infinitum

ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.

tw: sexual assault

UPDATE: Valerie D'Orazio has made a followup post on twitter.

They lied to you when they said the genocide had stopped.

“That Blacks were largely noncitizens will surprise few, but it is important to emphasize the extent to which they were seen as anticitizens, as ‘enemies rather than members of the social compact.’ As such they were driven from Independence Day parades as ‘defilers’ of the body politic and driven from their homes by Sons of Liberty and Minute Men. The more powerless they become, the greater their supposed potential to be used by the rich to make freemen unfree. Thus, it was necessary to watch for the smallest signs of power among Blacks, and, since Blacks were defenseless, it was easy to act on perceived threats. We shall see this dynamic very much at work later in discussions of antebellum race riots, but worth considering here are the vehement and usually successful popular objections that at times also bolstered white workers’ labor market positions.”

saw a twitter post about how a non-binary person was bothered by people sayin’ “they is” instead of “they are” and it’s definitely a reason why i created this blog and the blacknbculture blog. no matter how pro-black or anti-racism a white nigga will be they will always find some way to criticize “ghetto”, “trashy”, or “lazy” ways of speakin’ and bein’.

I understand the approach to Black language, it's a very important thing to anyone, your own language. But how can people who live abroad and learn their English online avoid learning AAVE as well? It's not possible to browse comment sections on youtube or instagram or scroll tumblr or twitter and vet everyone to make sure you only absorb non-Black language use, or even know what is what, when you don't speak English as your first language.

Revolutionaries in Africa understood that the question of African liberation was not just a question of race, that even if they managed to get rid of the white colonialists, if they didn’t rid themselves of the capitalistic economic structure, the white colonialists would simply be replaced by Black neocolonialists. There was not a single liberation movement in Africa that was not fighting for socialism. In fact, there was not a single liberation movement in the whole world that was fighting for capitalism. The whole thing boiled down to a simple equation: anything that has any kind of value is made, mined, grown, produced, and processed by working people. So why shouldn’t working people collectively own that wealth? Why shouldn’t working people own and control their own resources? Capitalism meant that rich businessmen owned the wealth, while socialism meant that the people who made the wealth owned it.