It has become such a normal thing to see mediocrity on our Twitter timelines nowadays, “wokeness” as they say. I can’t open my Twitter app without seeing a non-black person tweet about how bad racism is. Now of course, it’s not the talking about systems of oppression that bother me, it’s about the lack of insight people give on these pervasive issues that continue to affect black folks on the daily.
“Racism isn’t okay! Sexism is terrible!” is all I hear from non-black people of color, tweeting mediocrity like this & having the audacity to put “woke” in their bios. Racism is NOT as simple as the dictionary definition of “prejudice and discrimination of another race” or some BS. Racism is systematic, it cannot be erased by you simply tweeting out that you’re against it. This is all from NBPOC that believe because they’re part of a marginalized group of people, they can speak on black issues whilst simultaneously ignoring the pervasive anti-blackness in their own communities……
For example, the Arab community. Arab anti-blackness is a common issue within NBPOC alike, because of their long history with slavery. The Arab slave trade (which happened around the 8th or 9th century) was estimated to have enslaved around 10 to 18 million people in the process of colonizing. From North Africa to West African countries, raping & killing people there was common. In the process, the arabized slaves were forced to give up their traditional customs (food, clothing, especially religion), leading to the start of Arab supremacy. Black folks are still being dehumanized & led into forced labor in places like Saudi Arabia & the UAE.
“We have people like Linda Sarsour who love to promote ideas like POC solidarity & claim african ancestors as if Arabs didn’t literally colonize whole parts of Africa, forcing Islam onto black Africans.”
Here are some screenshots of Yasmin Yonis, a Somali activist, speaking on Linda’s constant exploitation of black issues that only benefit her liberal agenda:
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Arabs like Linda Sarsour never give any recognition to us which fuels the assumption that black Muslims aren’t true to their faith because they don’t have Arab ancestry. We exist, yet the media seems to only focus on one demographic of Muslims: white-skinned Arabs.
There are people that worship non-black women of color like Alexis Isabel, a light-skinned latina that regurgitated information from black women in order to gain her 90k following on Twitter while not giving any recognition to black women that experience these issues first-hand such as misogynoir, colorism, etc. All she has to do is say “racism is bad!” and get 100k retweets by her mindless followers.
In Asian communities, anti-blackness is not a foreign thing. From blackface in Korean reality TV shows, to commercials that perpetuate colorism, they have it all. It’s isn’t uncommon or surprising, considering the death of Latasha Harlins, a fifteen year-old girl shot in the head by a Korean store owner, or with the recent attacks of an east-asian store owner choking a black woman because he believed she was a thief.
As you can see, anti-blackness is common & perpetuated by many non-black people of color. White people may have been apart of worldwide colonization and imperialism, but NBPOC’s have followed in their footsteps. institutionalized anti-blackness exists internationally, and will not be solved if you get angry at black folks reclaiming our voices. Instead of stealing our hashtags (turning #blacklivesmatter into #nativelivesmatter for example), create your own individual movements to refrain from dismissing our experiences. POC solidarity is a myth, and will always be considered as such until you finally wake up with the passion to end systems of oppression without feeling offended by black voices.
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