OPMay 8, 2021·1 replyI don't think Haiti gets enough love. They've really contributed a lot to many things across the globe.
Like Zombies, that's Haitian folk. That's a small thing though, the revolution has inspired a lot of uprisingings and movements for all afrodescendants (I'm not sure how Africans view the Haitian revolution? Maybe it has impacted those of the continent too)
Haitian Liberation has inspired a lot of key panafricanists & panafrican thought as well.
- OPMay 8, 2021
After the revolution, Haiti invited any Enslaved Black folks to come and live on the island if they were able to make it. This was before panafricanism was conceptualized
May 8, 2021
commonwrongdoerEverybody has a different idea about what to do to save us. And instead of talking and figuring out who is closest to the truth we just assume the worst and start arguing. It's exhausting.
Yep and imo the key is finding middle ground and compromising and actually having productive conversations that don’t have niggas diving in so headstrong and making moves
I ain’t no expert tho or freedom fighter
I’m just a nigga who bullshits around on ktt and reads books while I’m working and help enable the same system that oppresses black folks world wide, just a nigga trying to get by like everybody elseI do feel positivity and a change in mindset towards one another would go a long way for our people and I try to do my little part here and there and keep it movin
- OPMay 8, 2021
I need to read up on what's going on in Ethiopia.
May 8, 2021·3 repliesHas this been discussed? Thoughts on the “nuclear family”?
She’s 100% wrong
May 8, 2021Mr MotionHas this been discussed? Thoughts on the “nuclear family”?
https://twitter.com/ericaleshai/status/1389774550674468872She’s 100% wrong
Yeah no she not wrong
May 8, 2021·2 repliesMr MotionHas this been discussed? Thoughts on the “nuclear family”?
https://twitter.com/ericaleshai/status/1389774550674468872She’s 100% wrong
Objectively, is the concept of the nuclear family rooted in white supremacy? Absolutely not.
But I do not like the way she phrased the following: "men are designed to be compatible with women, as women are designed to compatible with men".
- May 8, 2021·2 repliesallmygirlsdoyoga
Objectively, is the concept of the nuclear family rooted in white supremacy? Absolutely not.
But I do not like the way she phrased the following: "men are designed to be compatible with women, as women are designed to compatible with men".
It is though. The concept of a Nuclear family is rooted in capitalism & white supremacy. It was pushed by the government post WW2 iirc so that they could sell more houses. If you look outside almost any culture outside of the US, multigenerational families are the norm. Living in the same house as your parents before you, and so and and so forth. Growing up with aunts, uncles, cousins, within the same house, or adjacent to is a regular thing.
"Nuclear family" to be clear is Dad + Mom + Kids. Grandparents are not factored when you say "nuclear family". A large majority of black people within the US did not grow up in such a way.
- May 8, 2021·editedMr Motion
It is though. The concept of a Nuclear family is rooted in capitalism & white supremacy. It was pushed by the government post WW2 iirc so that they could sell more houses. If you look outside almost any culture outside of the US, multigenerational families are the norm. Living in the same house as your parents before you, and so and and so forth. Growing up with aunts, uncles, cousins, within the same house, or adjacent to is a regular thing.
"Nuclear family" to be clear is Dad + Mom + Kids. Grandparents are not factored when you say "nuclear family". A large majority of black people within the US did not grow up in such a way.
I don’t see how that means it’s rooted in white supremacy. The topic with regards to the nuclear family and the black community often pertains back to single mother homes.
I just don’t see how the concept of a family that consist of mother + father and their children is rooted in white supremacy.
Our community would benefit from both more nuclear family structures and multigenerational family structures.
- May 8, 2021·1 reply
If anything, the demise of the black nuclear family is due to white supremacy.
- OPMay 8, 2021
It always feels condescending when people s*** on the nuclear family, when most of the people that do grew up with one anyway.
The people advocating for it had only one parent in the house. The real statistic is that in these extended family settings they're single parent at a disproportionate rate for Black people in the country.
So telling people traumatized with a missing parent in their childhood they should not be advocating for the nuclear family cause it's white supremacy is not a nuanced take at all.
- OPMay 8, 2021
Nina explains this, but anyways.
May 8, 2021i set the record for most jobs applied to while on the clock
- May 8, 2021·2 replies
People don’t understand how not having a father in the house really effect kids. The mother can teach you to be a good person but she can’t teach you how to be a man.
- OPMay 9, 2021·editedEnlighten Brother
People don’t understand how not having a father in the house really effect kids. The mother can teach you to be a good person but she can’t teach you how to be a man.
A missing parent, mother or father is harmful to everyone in the household.
People really downplay that when they don't know what it's like. Single parents having to pull double the emotional labor when they don't have their partner.
Which makes divest Twitter sound like a bunch of idiots wanting to eradicate men from family settings when we see how that traumatizes people. (unless it's a Queer relationship ofc dynamics is different)
May 10, 2021- May 15, 2021
Crazy how easy it is for brothers to kill each other over s*** that at the end of the day don’t mean nothin
- May 17, 2021·1 reply
Apology Men MusicDude think because he OP of ktt black empowerment thread that he has the authority on all things black.
I bet you homie a bum ass nigga in real life. He deliberately will disregard statistics and facts it it goes against his own twisted narrative (like the fact black historians have legitimized buck breaking not being nearly as prominent as homophobes make it out to be.)
Homie just a dumb nigga. It’s cool tho.
"Black Historians" lmao right.
Probably filtered by the white supremacists and Intersectional K00NS. - May 17, 2021·1 replyPoignant
"Black Historians" lmao right.
Probably filtered by the white supremacists and Intersectional K00NS.B**** please do not ever quote me.
- May 17, 2021Mulder
People like Tariq & Umar (especially Umar) are gaining traction and have been because no matter how you slice it they both know how to speak to a specific, yet large demographic of Black people in the US.
We really do need to discuss how degreed up, Black folks from the suburbs with all this a***ysis and critical race theory course completions don't know how to talk to Black people. Also throwing reading lists at people isn't doing anything to help either.
Umar is a hotep, makes ahistorical talking points & spews harmful rhetoric a lot, but when he's speaking he's not throwing jargon at people and trying to flex his education.
A lot of these folks who claim to be better than the Umars and Tariqs of the world be antiblack and talking to Black people like idiots and have no practical application to what they're saying.
BIG FACTS.
I dont f*** with Umar like that but I must say, dont know about ahistorical and harmful rhetoric..
- May 17, 2021Mulder
People like Tariq & Umar (especially Umar) are gaining traction and have been because no matter how you slice it they both know how to speak to a specific, yet large demographic of Black people in the US.
We really do need to discuss how degreed up, Black folks from the suburbs with all this a***ysis and critical race theory course completions don't know how to talk to Black people. Also throwing reading lists at people isn't doing anything to help either.
Umar is a hotep, makes ahistorical talking points & spews harmful rhetoric a lot, but when he's speaking he's not throwing jargon at people and trying to flex his education.
A lot of these folks who claim to be better than the Umars and Tariqs of the world be antiblack and talking to Black people like idiots and have no practical application to what they're saying.
Also these so called black intellectuals be really K00NS that dont know s*** and just validated by white zaddy.
- May 17, 2021Apology Men Music
“ A lot of these folks who claim to be better than the Umars and Tariqs of the world be antiblack and talking to Black people like idiots and have no practical application to what they're saying.”
Thats wild cause you just described Umar lol. How many times he always references or flexes that he’s a psychologist before he says some bullshit point? He does it too. The only difference is that black mainstream media gives him the spotlight for it. Feminista Jones helped create a whole network through twitter where people could connect and assemble for vigils (#nmos14) across the nation. Connections and organizations were made through that. Noname helped start a whole book club and built a whole community center in chicago for political spaces, arts, and books that’s free to the people. Where’s there breakfast club interviews at? Them niggas really been actually doing s***.
The media visibility is the main reason why “they been connecting with the black people” (which I’d argue against. We aint monoliths)
You say practical application but what exactly has Umar or Tariq done for the community? Hell, what have hoteps in general actually done? Raise consciousness? The niggas on the corner with bullhorns and wearing them damn leather/hells angels jackets that tell us we going to hell be doing that too.
The people really getting it done (degree or not) are actually outside. Or they’re creating black initiatives through the social media. They not chasing celebrity because celebrity activism is bullshit (shoutout to Deray and Shaun King).
So nah, it’s not as simple as “lol why these black ppl with degrees not connecting with the black ppl?” shawty.
Dumbass.
What Tariq did is all over the net. You're just arguing in bad faith really.
Typically the "what have you done for the community" people be on some bullshit.
That's a question you need to ask yourself first before asking another man.
- May 17, 2021Apology Men Music
“Also throwing reading lists at people isn't doing anything to help either.”
Ima keep it a buck, I really, reallllllly hate that this has become something to look down on in recent decades lol. Like there aint been proof that books have helped radicalize the people, or all this s*** we talk about aint come from the same books. Like Malcolm X’s autobiography didn’t help radicalize a generation.
U dont gotta read to be a revolutionary, but don’t say educating yourself on the things we need or want to change aint a revolutionary action lol
No but people think that throwing a reading list is really doing something.
It's good info but actual work is engaging people to move forward in some type of way. Not just saying "read this".
That's what these pseudo intellectuals be saying.
- May 17, 2021Apology Men Music
"when they question something they read people immediately go on attack, and how is this practically applied outside of the internet? "
Local book clubs that legit offer a***ysis and room for healthy critique. I'm in New York City. It's tons of them here so I'm confused at what you even talking bout with that one. I was in one before I left cause the shawty that ran it was kind of a police sympathizer cause she got family that's 12 but hey it is what it is.
"You're just naive or confused if you think people are actually out here organizing appropriately and if you deny echo chambers existing and the majority of Black people being excluded from them."
Oh, I'm sorry? I didn't think you missed a whole f***ing summer of organizing and protests throughout the entire countr...fuck that, the whole entire world when George Floyd died.
Exclusion does happen but that's why there's things like #nmos14, where you can reach out to people in unaccessible neighborhoods. Provide transportation, get people to and from. All the protests/vigils I been to last year it was a point made to make sure every black woman/non-man there got back home safely before most the men left.
You talkin bout exclusion, niggas been tryna remedy that. That's why the organizations born out of these Asian/Black coalitions this year (that media have been ignoring for...some odd reason) are important for that reason.The intersection community goes on attack mode as soon as someone ask them questions publicly, where their declarations will be heard by thousands.