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Soon after I moved to #NYC in 2002, I began a relationship with a Black man. We lived together for 3yrs. Very soon after we became a couple, I insisted we boycott Arab (Yemeni, I believe) owned stores in our neighbourhood because of their anti-Black racism.
#BlackLivesMatter
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The men behind the counter in those stores didn’t know I speak Arabic. And when Marcus and I would go in together, they would say the most disgusting racist shit about Black men and why I was with a Black man. I confronted them. Shamed them. And boycotted them. #BlackLivesMatter
After one yelling match with them, I reminded them that post-9/11, Arabs or Muslims who knew what being profiled or being subjected to discrimination and violence was like, should be the last people to be racist.
#BlackLivesMatter
#BlackLivesMatter
We are a racist people in #Egypt and we are in deep denial about it.
I wrote this in 2008 after an #Egyptian woman’s racist attack on a #Sudanese girl on the #Cairo metro.
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I wrote this in 2008 after an #Egyptian woman’s racist attack on a #Sudanese girl on the #Cairo metro.
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackSpring
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What else but racism on Dec. 30, 2005, allowed 100s of riot police to storm through a makeshift camp in central #Cairo to clear it of 2,500 Sudanese refugees, trampling or beating to death 28, including women and children.
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#BlackLivesMatter #BlackSpring
What else but racism lies behind the bloody statistics at the #Egyptian border with Israel where 2007-2008 #Egyptian guards have killed at least 33 migrants, many from #Sudan's Darfur region, including a pregnant woman and a 7-year-old girl?
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#BlackLivesMatter #BlackSpring
Social upheaval usually follows pandemics
When history books are written, they will note that the revolution came during - not after - the 2020 pandemic when a Black-led uprising against systemic injustices spread across the USA & beyond.
#BlackSpring #BlackLivesMatter
When history books are written, they will note that the revolution came during - not after - the 2020 pandemic when a Black-led uprising against systemic injustices spread across the USA & beyond.
#BlackSpring #BlackLivesMatter
Protests began as a demand for justice after police in Minneapolis murdered George Floyd.
They have grown into a revolution against systemic racism and police brutality.
And also the ways the State fails to “provide,” protect,” and other mirages exposed by the pandemic.
They have grown into a revolution against systemic racism and police brutality.
And also the ways the State fails to “provide,” protect,” and other mirages exposed by the pandemic.
There was and there is nothing “peaceful” about oppression.
When the oppressed and the marginalized rise up, “peace” and patience are demanded *of* them in a way it was never demanded *for* them.
When the oppressed and the marginalized rise up, “peace” and patience are demanded *of* them in a way it was never demanded *for* them.
Tuesday’s action as per @Mvmnt4BlkLives Week of action:
Divestment from police and investment in Black communities.
This resource from MPD 150 is excellent: Building A Police-Free Future
#DefundThePolice
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
mpd150.com/faq/
Divestment from police and investment in Black communities.
This resource from MPD 150 is excellent: Building A Police-Free Future
#DefundThePolice
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
mpd150.com/faq/
Uprisings across the US began as a demand for justice for #GeorgeFloyd who was murdered by police in #Minneapolis. MPD 150 have been evaluating policing in that city. Their resource kit is a great FAQ on defunding and abolishing police. #BlackLivesMatter #DefundThePolice
What does #DefundThePolice mean? What does #AbolishThePolice look like? Who do the police “protect and serve?”
This is an important resource for the actions and conversations we must have about one of the main enforcers of white supremacist and racist structural oppression.
This is an important resource for the actions and conversations we must have about one of the main enforcers of white supremacist and racist structural oppression.
Trump announced on Monday that he was sending thousands of heavily armed military personnel into the US capital & threatened to dispatch the military across the US against Americans demonstrating against police brutality.
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Trump didn’t answer questions about what authority he would use to deploy the military outside the federally-controlled capital city, but he could be considering invoking the Insurrection Act.
Federal law bars the military from enforcing laws at home.
Federal law bars the military from enforcing laws at home.
I am grateful to @prisonculture, an abolitionist I have learned so much from.
And I appreciate activists whose work lays out ways to take action and talk about defunding and abolishing police.
This is a great resource: Building a police-free future mpd150.com
And I appreciate activists whose work lays out ways to take action and talk about defunding and abolishing police.
This is a great resource: Building a police-free future mpd150.com
Uprisings across the US began as a demand for justice for #GeorgeFloyd who was murdered by police in #Minneapolis. MPD 150 have been evaluating policing in that city. Their resource kit is a great FAQ on defunding and abolishing police. #BlackLivesMatter #BlackSpring
What does #DefundThePolice mean? What does #AbolishThePolice look like? Who do the police “protect and serve?” This is an important resource for the actions and conversations we must have about one of the main enforcers of white supremacist and racist structural oppression.
Is Trump declaring Martial Law?
So after hiding in a bunker for a bit, staying silent as more 140+ cities & towns across the US rise up against police violence & racism, Trump finally addresses the nation to grandstand and threaten Martial Law?
He is a failure. And a coward.
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#BlackLivesMatter
He is a failure. And a coward.
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
Trump is being deliberately evasive. He wishes he could just go full-on authoritarian. He wants to be able to declare Martial Law.
Who will stop this fascist fuck?
How will US politicians and branches of government in an ostensible democracy stand up to him?
Who will stop this fascist fuck?
How will US politicians and branches of government in an ostensible democracy stand up to him?
More than 4,000 people have been arrested across the US for protesting police brutality.
Only one of the four police officers involved in the murder of #GeorgeFlyod have been arrested.
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#BlackLivesMatter
Only one of the four police officers involved in the murder of #GeorgeFlyod have been arrested.
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
None of the police officers who murdered #BreonnaTaylor in MARCH have been arrested.
#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
#SayHerName
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#JusticeforBreonnaTaylor
#SayHerName
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- At least 140 cities and towns across the US have risen up against police brutality and racism
- The National Guard has been activated in at least 21 states
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#BlackLivesMatter
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- The National Guard has been activated in at least 21 states
#BlackSpring
#BlackLivesMatter
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3 queer Black women founded #BlackLivesMatter.
#PrideMonth starts today. Remember its roots in the uprising by Black & Latinx trans & queer people against police brutality.
Remember this as the #BlackSpring rises up against racism and police brutality medium.com/national-cente…
#PrideMonth starts today. Remember its roots in the uprising by Black & Latinx trans & queer people against police brutality.
Remember this as the #BlackSpring rises up against racism and police brutality medium.com/national-cente…
“#BLM is inherently a movement sustained by a politics of blackness that is, Charlene Carruthers reminds us, unapologetically feminist, womanist, and queer.” #BlackLivesMatter
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“The political insurgency of #BLM evokes the likes of earlier black queer activists — lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender activists of African descent — who, because of time and circumstance, spoke in various tones of “how infinitely complex any move for liberation must be.””
