When a person of color, especially if they’re black like me, affirms their support for causes such as queer liberation, feminism, animal rights, or socialism, I immediately feel that I can believe, with minimal doubt, that they’re truly convicted and principled in what they’re advocating for.

However, when a white person claims to support leftism, until my skepticism is proven wrong, I immediately assume they’re a dishonest and performative libshit. I then proceed to interact with them with hefty amounts of caution. If my assumptions are proven true, I’m never shocked.

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    “Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.”

    Kwame Ture

    While I’m here, I know this cracker wasn’t talking “It’s has not been 1979 for 45 years” when thousands upon thousands of Black men and women have been pressganged back into chattel slavery thanks to the way the Fourteenth Amendment is written. I know this honky wasn’t talking “It’s has not been 1979 for 45 years” when Black men and women have been getting lynched by cop at rates of roughly a thousand per year, with half of those murders making it to the 24/7 news cycle to traumatize the survivors. I know this genocidal fucking demon wasn’t talking “It’s has not been 1979 for 45 years” when we still get redlined into ghettos and tenements, JUST FOR THOSE GHETTOS AND TENEMENTS TO GET BULLDOZED, REBUILT, AND GENTRIFIED WITH PRICES TO SHOVE US OUT OF OUR HOMES AND NEIGHBORHOOD.

    I hope when they find your bones a couple hundred years from now, it’s in a fucking mass grave.