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Did you know that white people make up only 7% of the global population? This thought-provoking question was raised by Yaya, a biracial woman, in a viral social media video. She shared her surprise that so many people, herself included, were unaware of this fact. Yaya reflected on how such a small percentage holds disproportionate global influence, stressing that white supremacy persists not because the numbers support it, but because it is actively allowed. Her video sparked widespread conversations about power, privilege, and representation. If Black people are the global majority, how can African people, both on the continent and in the diaspora, unite to dismantle white supremacy and build a more equitable future?

idk that anyone will see or care for this but idc. the shame is long past for pan-Afro voices. call me "extra" or stereotype me as an angry Black woman. once i can bring up my own Afrolatinidad, my culture & my Black caribbean roots without having others, especially latinos, go full anti-Black on me, be they white latino Pacific-Atlantics or even fellow self-hating Caribbeans, then that's the moment i can well & truly say my Blackness & the experience of the life in it as is brings me all the joy & not also pain, & even then thats a weight to be healed. my degree of biracial-ness included. because why must so many pan-Afro people across the diaspora be made to carry their Black roots like a cross? aren't we free of the chains yet? when images are reproduced for me with whips as the punchline, am i supposed to find them funny? i think the fuck not. why do we latinos get brought up with "Blanco" as a compliment & the approximation to the peak beauty ideal, and "Negro" as an insult or the object of pity? why was i compelled to laugh as a kid whenever it was brought up that my great-grandfather, a stern but sensible hard-working man who faithfully married a dark-skinned woman, hated Black ppl & refused to meet his own Black grandchildren? i still carry the anti-Black slurs i got called as a child as is. "negrata" with Spaniards, the hard-R with the rest of the world... there also seem to be issues in common with those of us biracials who grew up with a white or even just white-passing mum, even if mine has some Afro roots as well, just not as many as my dad. but really, enough with the Black suffering. it can be a crazy upbringing, and with crazy i mean desolating & confusing. i need to integrate myself with some more hopeful stories of Black Excellence & success when everything that's thrown at me is Black trauma, or else that's how we inadvertently fall into self-loathing.

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