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That being said, I can see all your comments and reblogs. If you are a white or non-black person of colour and i see you screaming in my mentions about how being queer absolves you from being antiblack and how wrong these Black theorists are, tagging Black specific posts as 'POC' and 'BIPOC', tagging Black lesbian specific posts about stud and stem as butch and futch when the author said they dont use those terms, making Black ace and aro posts about yourself with no care about the racism the Black ace or aro author was describing or to summarise, being a prick, I wont hesitate to block you.

I know some of you were raised to believe your opinions and thoughts are inherently more important then every Black person you meet and that you are the most special person in the room and I'm here to tell you that you aren't and you never will be on this page.

For this reason, Black queer activists have always had to be invested in dismantling white supremacy as the source of both anti-Blackness and queer antagonism. Meanwhile, white queer activists have been invested in upholding white supremacy, because they continue to benefit from a system that affords power to whiteness because they continue to benefit from a system that affords whiteness and white people, even when they are also queer. What is true of whiteness in every space, even in "progressive" and "inclusive" spaces, is that it will always work to create some form of exclusivity as a means to reassert white superiority. Therefore white asexuals often claim asexual queerness as a property, just as whiteness itself is claimed as a property, a space that others are barred from entering into. The belief that Black people can never disengage from an easily accessible and consumable sexuality is incredibly damaging to Black people as a whole, and uniquely so to the Black asexual. Black asexuality shatters centuries-old beliefs, upheld by caricatures like the Mandingo, the Jezebel, the Mammy, and more. Accepting the existence of genuine Black asexuality would require those who hold so tightly to these myths to do the work of dismantling them. But many people do not want to let go of the racist sexual stereotypes because they are comforted by them, they are comforted by what affords them their social value. The Black asexual threatens to upend everything they think they know about Blackness, and everything they think they know about themselves as allegedly superior. Black asexuality threatens their worldview, which means it ultimately threatens their world.

Welcome! This is a side blog for interesting Black texts I've found. Will mainly post and reblog Black British history and culture, Black theory and Black lesbian history. Feel free to read and share! NO TERFS, NO RADFEMS, NO ANTI BLACK RACISTS & NO COLOURISTS! Anyone can follow and interact but any weird antics will get you blocked!

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On this day in 1834, slavery was abolished in the British Empire. Britain played a key role in the dehumanisation, oppression and trading of West African slaves. The British Empire was built on this slavery. The British Government paid slaveowners and their descendants reparations up until 2015, whilst descendants of slaves, including the Windrush Generation, were given nothing. Slaveowner statues and streets named after them still exist in the UK to this day.

Emancipation Day is celebrated by various West Indian countries that were colonised and brutalised by the British Empire: Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Belize, the Bahamas, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, Guyana, Turks and Caicos and the Cayman Islands.

It is also celebrated by Black people in other parts of the diaspora such as Canada, the USA and South Africa.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric from the British government increased throughout the 1950s-1970s, including increased policing in Wet Indian communities by the Met Police. In 2018 there was the Windrush Scandal, where the British government detained and deported the same Windrush members they invited decades back. The individuals, their families and the community have never been compensated for this. We're still waiting for justice.

The modern UK culture you see now, from the music, the dialects and slang, the food... is heavily influenced by the Windrush. Multicultural London English and Black British Vernacular are blends of Pidgin, Patois, Creole and Arabic. The many shops, stalls and restaurants across London and throughout the country were set up by the immigrants that first arrived and are the reason you can get items from across the globe just around the corner. The UK's ska and rock and roll age was birthed from reggae and rude boys. Learn about the Windrush. Celebrate them. And fight for them!

children and families at a Juneteenth celebration in Sycamore Park (1977)