Post AkCHRXy4qmmz2LEjA0 by ClimateJenny@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AkCGSw0GsBbdutMPq4 by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T17:43:38Z
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and it shows that Barry Rukus didn't grow up around Black aunties.https://mas.to/@obeto/112831328196537950but on a more serious note: white America thinks we negr@s are interchangeable. @so_treu posted yesterday an article criticizing that very point. yeah, Barack is the first Black POTUS but he isn't descended of libertos —of African or Afroindigenous people freed of chattel slavery born in the Américas— and it always shows for those of us who are. 🧵#2024Elections #USpol #DNC2024
(DIR) Post #AkCGSxT1QmCMSLotI8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-07-22T18:20:16Z
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@blogdiva @so_treu Unless he says a name this doesn't mean very much. Have you noticed how no one will even whisper a single name?That said he isn't a part of the world of regular people anymore and hasn't made any effort to keep in touch. He hoards that "political capital" like a dragon. Never uses it for anything. IDK if he has "new friends" or wants to "cash in" or if he just likes having all that power. This is the power move for preserving his influence ... for ... for what?
(DIR) Post #AkCGSyjiiB9KOQdjxQ by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T17:49:56Z
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Y'ALL GONNA LEARN TO PARSE BLACKNESSi was born in this country, like many Puerto Ricans, but i would never call myself African American; not out of disrespect for African Americans but out of respect for my Afroboricua ancestors. the chattel slavery is the common bond —especially genetically speaking— that unites Black peoples across the Américas; from Alaska to La Patagonia. but each region and country have their own expression, it's own history of slavery... 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCGT0okyQMmqd0n5M by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:03:49Z
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AM 4th GENERATION LIBERTAthat means there are 3 people before me that were born emancipated before me: Papi, abuelo, bisabuela. that's it. Spain protracted the emancipation of Puerto Rican slaves until it couldn't anymore. so slavery for some of us is literally 3 people away. Kamala comes from libertos on her father's side also... and yet, because they're Jamaican libertos, their experience is specific to the island, not the United States...🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCGTteN6jjuuLZm2C by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:09:49Z
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IT'S A DIFFERENT BLACKNESSWHEN YOU COME FROM A MAJORITY AFRICAN COUNTRYall my life i've been told, but Liza you don't look Black. but i grew up in Puerto Rico where the population of Afroboricuas was decimated with the mass migration of the 1940s. our numbers dwindled en La Isla while they soared here: Neil Degrasse-Tyson, Jean Michel Basquiat, Carmelo Anthony, Kelis are all examples of the Afroboricua diaspora now seen as African Americans🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCGTvqUwccziXGUDI by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:14:23Z
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I GREW UP A MINORITY IN PUERTO RICObut Kamala's father wasn't a minority in Jamaica. certainly, Barack's father in Kenya wasn't racially (ethnic minorities are whole other discussion here). my bff is from Trinidad & Tobago and it absolutely fucking shows she was born & raised in a Black majority country. it's just a different being in time and space when you don't grow up looking behind your back all the time. 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCHRXy4qmmz2LEjA0 by ClimateJenny@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:30:16Z
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@futurebird @blogdiva @so_treu Bingo.
(DIR) Post #AkCM5KprUnDRhtcc5I by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:19:18Z
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when you get to now Jamaicans, Haitians, Barbadians, Bahamians they just BE differently. they do not have the reflexive constraints of someone who had to learn to little themselves to the point of being invisible because they were the one negr@ not just in the room but in the whole fucking neighborhood or town. which brings me to the Kamala Harris point of this post: KAMALA is like a rainbow of intersectionalities ESPECIALLY when it comes to Blackness 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5Lu9WKF51UdYPY by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:31:49Z
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KAMALAis a daughter of a Jamaican Black man descended of libertos and a Tamil Indian mother. so that means she is: - a daughter of migrants- descended of slaves from Jamaica, an Afroindigenous majoritarian country and one of the definers of Carib Negritude- from Tamil Indian, which has its own state but is a minoritarian ethnic group- she's bougie, both her parents were academics; throwing one of those unspoken wrenches into the equation of US Blackness...🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5MBAV3qxsGb8vw by Mac_CZ@mastodon.macsnet.cz
2024-07-22T19:23:24Z
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@blogdiva You mean descendant of slave owners. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/hold-kamala-harris-father-claims-his-family-descends-irish-slave-owner-jamaica
(DIR) Post #AkCM5NW7WeCu1XPOEK by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:42:45Z
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KAMALA is made of different, and sometimes at odds, definitions of Blackness. her dad was from the era (and most certainly the circle of intellectuals) that defined NEGRITUDE as not just a cultural expression of the African diaspora across the Caribbean but an ethos, an ontology, a praxis. Negritude is by definition at war with USA's white hegemon's definition of Blackness. but sometimes it's at odds even with the pop culture expression of Blackness by black folks🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5PcvgIqGZEbr7Y by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:48:07Z
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then add to that her Indian heritage; which btw is super common in the Caribbean. countries like Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago opened their doors to migrant workers from India to bust unions and make sure sugar plantations never stopped producing the cash crop.there's a lot of Black Carib folks out there with Indian and other Asian nannas and gdaddies. Naomi Campbell is an example of that. she has a Chinese paternal grandmother. anyways... back to Kamala... 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5ReQ9jDuqRK4iu by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:52:57Z
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THE POINT BEING with someone like Kamala Harris, you can tell they grew up around Black elders who even if they didn't suffer the penuries of slavery, where entrusted with its memory and with the duty to NEVER FORGET.it is generational trauma. just because that inherited trauma was proven to exist with grandchildren of Holocaust survivors it doesn't mean it is not applicable to other groups who've survived other types of genocide. and yes, slavery IS genocide🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5TX3A6W2g9tDVo by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T18:56:33Z
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BARACK IS A GOLDEN CHILDin every single possible way (yes, am using the narc term); but particularly as the only Black child in a tightly knit white family with, apparently, no more Black kin in the mix. Barack didn't grow up around his father or his father's extended family and it always fucking shows in moments like this, when we have a whole fucking bunch of nazis ready to burn the whole country down and he is so tone deaf as to ask for an open primary at the DNC🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5VOcEQxQSZxVdw by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T19:05:40Z
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BARACK IS THE KIND OF NEGR@ WHO REALLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND THE INSIDIOUS VIOLENCE OF RACISMand am going to extend this to my African kin and all the Black folks who come from majoritarian Black countries.bless you for not being burdened by the baggage of racism, by having grown up free of the paranoia of having a target on your back just for existing. Barack lived extremely shielded from that shit and it shows in his lack of urgency in this critical moment... 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5Xa26xHLEZJeiW by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T19:11:20Z
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KAMALA NEVER HAD THAT PRIVILEGE even in the bougie, extremely insular world of migrant scientists and academics, she had to endure the obscenities and injustices of the American fascist state that used her Black body, as a little girl, to force desegration in the California school system. NO YOU NEVER GROW OUT OF THAT TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCEand it's why i bawled like a baby when she described that violence during the 2019 primaries debate:https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=6vG1Tnuvo78🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCM5Yh9xwZcgxerSq by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T19:17:17Z
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KAMALA fascinates me not for her accomplishments but exactly for how she is like a vector, IN THE FLESH, of so many of the issues impacting Americans at all levels: race, ethnicity, migrancy, class, sex, gender, health, abilityand yet, i was not going to vote for her in the primaries (she was the first to bow out). but in spite of the Kamala Cop moniker (or because of it, i come from a family of cops), i've come to respect her the more i know about her background. 🧵#2024Elections #USpol
(DIR) Post #AkCSuyixY8UZugOyxc by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2024-07-22T20:39:50Z
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it's called rape you racist fuckwad @Mac_CZ