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Black • androgynous • atheist • prog metal enjoyer • xVx

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  • Ty

  • Same for me.

    I do identify as Afrikan above all else, but I probably wouldn't refer to myself as such in any context where it could incur confusion.

  • "FBAs" don't identify with the term "African American" specifically because they hate the "African" part of it.

    I don't identify with the term "African American" specifically because I hate the "American" part of it.

    We are not the same.

  • Something that bothers the hell out of me is when white queer people expect me to be queer first and Black second.

    I did that, and it led to immense self-hate and feeling like I belonged literally nowhere.

    My queerness and androgynous presentation greatly impact how I move through the world, yes, but no matter what, anyone who looks at me will see that I am Black FIRST. Not only that, but unlike my queerness, the fact that I am Black is literally tied to an entire fucking history and lineage, and that shapes the conditions of how I and other Black people as a whole exist today.

    There is not a single thing about me that is actually more important than my Blackness, honestly. People will say, "Why do you make everything about race?". Well, it's because the system did it first. That's why, motherfucker.

    No white person (or non-Black person, period, to be honest) I have dated has been able to make me feel seen in terms of race. Even the very person who would be in what is supposed to be the most intimate position they could ever possibly be in my life could not truly grasp this extremely important thing about me and how I exist in this world. Their intentions could've been the best, and they could've been the nicest people, but it made my relationships hurt and devoid of joy.

    I am even very careful about having white people as just friends, let alone me refusing them as partners.

    To this day, I think of the first partner I ever had and how she, as a Black woman, made that relationship feel like literally no other relationship of mine that came after that. She is actually the only Black person I have dated so far, and that is something I intend to change when I am far more stable.

    White leftists are a fucking joke.

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  • I have seen how terrible these people are IRL, even. I have been physically assaulted by white queer people, including white queer women. This even happened to me at an earlier job I had, and I felt scared to tell anyone because I knew that no one would be on my side, especially since I was the only Black person there.

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  • Buckras continuously prove to me that there is no true unity between white leftists and leftists of color. There is a reason why my politics put anti-imperialism, Black struggles, and the Global South first, but it wasn't always like this. I used to be much less educated and didn't realize how indispensable this framework was for my understanding of politics as well as my well-being. White people are always gonna be white first, and my experience has told me that I'm always gonna be Black first, but believe me when I say that, in the past, I tried to be something else. It never worked, and it never will.

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  • The kind of people to say "It's just lyrics, so what's the big deal?" when singing along to a rap song with the n-word in it.

  • The shit that happened with LoveYourself still pisses me the fuck off every time I think about it.

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  • I'm almost 100% sure that the same has been said about using disability as a shield for misogyny and queerphobia on here and those past comments were never moderated like that.

    This is why I stopped putting energy into caring about the cries of white women and white queer people. I know damn well that they would never give Black people the same energy. Obviously, I'm not saying any of their struggles on the basis of gender and/or sexuality are warranted, but it baffles me how selfish and unempathetic they can be. White women treat Black women like shit and white queer people treat Black queer people like shit, only to expect everyone to have a pity party over their particular struggles, and guess what? In so-called "leftist" spaces, they DO always get said pity parties. This could especially be said about white women because performative cishet male leftists love to pretend to give a fuck about feminism because they hope to gain something from it. I always remind myself that the same white women who (rightfully) get annoyed at deflections like "not all men" are just as willing to say "not all white women" when a Black woman calls out their bullshit, and that reminder makes it easy for me to focus on shit that actually pertains to my people and anti-imperialist struggles. I have limited energy, so that energy is gonna be Black energy.

  • Living off of

    sandwiches is alright, but once I actually manage to get started with this CNA shit, something I'll try to do is get myself a treat for once.

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