All the anti-blackness

daniellemertina:

curlyingenue:

I’m seeing on my dashboard and hearing from other POCs. Right now I’m tired of this stupidity and makes me realise that our community really does have to always affirm itself even in a shared struggle. And the more you travel, the more you hear and see it. Because I’m light-skinned and more easily assimilate into certain populations; I dunno, I mean people really do see Black people as subhuman and I don’t know why so many activists are so unwilling to be honest about that. POCs are all down for the cause and then so quick to hush up Black people when some crumbs have been thrown. So quick to talk of their disgust and hatred and mouth off the same rhetoric as supremacy. And I’m so tired of this “we have to be better, we have to work harder”. You know what I don’t want to go around telling my children that and telling them to reach for the abstract strength of their ancestors. Why can’t we ever just be without having to resist the urge for someone to downgrade us? Why do we always have to prove ourselves and always try harder? Is the presence of Blackness that deplorable? Tonight I’m so done because equality only ever seems to go so far and don’t get me started on the misogyny people are so quick to overlook. Call me when the struggle isn’t full of so many BS people who only blog pictures of leaders without knowing what they stood for. People who don’t want to have a debate past the power fist and talk of “We were once kings and queens”. I’m just going to continue existing and sleep and then search for the revolutionary thrust. Peace.

yes, the pull yourself up by the bootstraps rhetoric is not for me. blacks shouldn’t have to do better to have the same result. the fact that we DO have to work harder is the whole point of combating racism in the 1st place

im wondering if when shes talking about misogyny, if shes talking about how the civil rights movement was created in the hopes of advancing black men and not black women as black women stood by their men and did not get much in return. (i mean how much we benefited from the civil rights movement as black women compared to black men is debatable though)

i learned all this resently and i havnt been able to look at our praised black leaders the same since :/