Strolling, Ep 7 - Cecile Emeke
A brand new episode of the short documentary series, featuring Abraham. We talked Nigeria, male feminists, patriarchy, crying, “great” britain, reparations for Africa, Palestine, Boko Haram, hair & more.
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Yet ppl don’t understand how white privilege still exists in brown n black countries
And pooooor Europe doesn’t want any immigrants in their country :’(
The fact that White Europeans and White People in general have rampant animosity towards immigrants is one of life’s greatest hypocrisies.
The only reason they are so against immigrants and immigration is because they are well aware of their history. They are afraid that People of Color lack the same amount of common sense, humanity, and empathy that they do.
Which simply means that they are afraid that when the People of Color immigrate into their countries, they will gain power and treat white people EXACTLY how they have treated People of Color and are STILL treating people of color.
- Susie the moderator
Sexual assault rates and violence against Native American women did not just drop from the sky. They are a process of history.
In the past months there has been a common rally around cultural appropriation throughout social media outlets. Greg Deal’s attempt to assert stereotypes by playing into them and throwing them back at the people who buy into it is a precarious game of dress up. It is important to consider that he is a native man but not of the culture he chooses to appropriate. That being said, there is a need to address the statement this photo communicates. The message is a mere projection of Deal’s internalized colonization at best and a critical means for social justice at worst. If his objective is to stir dialogue about stereotypes he needs to thoroughly consider the negligence and disrespectful nature of this message and the implications they have on his native female audience. The slightest understanding of life prior to colonization affirms that native communities were not structured on the basis of hierarchy, oppression or patriarchy. Despite the fact that native societies held women in high regards does not stop women from being abused and violated now. Since colonization the oppression against women has resulted in hazardous social conditions for them. The statement, Bitch I Might Be is a derogatory dissemination of masculine conquest that maintains the dominance of the unhealthy reality concerning the relationship between men and women. This is a cheap expression of “social change” that does nothing to advance the movement to break the barriers. I ask you to take a moment to truly reflect on your position as an artist and as a catalyst for change. Is this what the survival of our nations and declaration of our collective indigenous existence in the present day looks like? The painted black hand over the mouth is not enough to convey the extensive lack of respectful proliferation.
A Mexican worker said: “If I am a wetback because I crossed a river to get here, what are you, who crossed an entire ocean?”
(via collectivepast)
You stole an entire continent; how can you tell me my resistance is a crime?
Properganda
I’ve had visions of division
Rich and poor competition, free or imprisoned
Those affected by choices, those who make the decisions
The s called “terrorists” striking the towers with precision
Buildings at freefall speed, don’t make sense
Obey or be terrorist is that their only defense
Whether grocery stores
Or walking through school halls
They got constant watch like Mumia Abu-Jama
Conspiracy theorists, get laughed at and called crazy
I’m a lyrical beast and guess who made me?
Can’t spell propaganda without pagan
Illuminati or Haliburton either devils are satan
Can’t fall asleep a rebel or I’ll get done like Fred
Hampton, a black panther shot dead in his bed
And heal yourself, yeah hospitals CAN save you
If they’re paid to, if not they say a bullet wound grazed you
And charge an arm and a leg just for some prescription
Of poisonous so called medicines entering your system
Native American and African healing practices I miss ‘em
They’re savages but got shamans, don’t it seem a contradiction?
Tribesmen and clans had better ideas in the past
Your rank based off respect and not about class
We got the rich and the poor and even the mid
With politicians and pigs’ exploitation like Indonesian kids
From sweatshops in Korea to fields in Sierra Leone
Poorer country lab rats we’re free to prey on
And if you’re on the bandwagon you’d better stay on
Because you’ll have the “eye of Horus” written on your gravestone