That fat muthafukka is In the county in Atlanta for drunk driving.
The George Floyd protest thread (Times & locations across the US this weekend) *Rep for Attendees*
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That fat muthafukka is In the county in Atlanta for drunk driving.
You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. That’s why a lot of celebs don’t say shyt.
calixprynce
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thats how it was last weekend. Most of the police are worried about the peaceful protestors , when the news was showing live looting . stupid af, stores took a major L last weekend
GA, MA, FL, I presume TN, and a good number of others have a republican governor
I can’t rock with this. ATL is a black city. And we gotta thread a nuanced needle.
Performative allyship is dangerous.
Today a Black Lives Matter protest is being organised. In one afternoon, the event went from 500 to 3000 interested people (currently at 6000). And heading it, a non-black person. A non-black person who says that if the whole world is on the street, we too should be there. That what’s happening is horrible. That since she couldn’t see anything, nothing was being organised. That it’s ok to organise a non-authorised gathering (which will make superb photos and will remind us of the cancelled summer festivals), an event which can put in danger the health, life, legal status of the more melanated people who might come.
Because yes, for pale people, this protest is surely a chance to show their “wokeness”, to show that “we’re all different but all the same”. To PERFORM THEIR ALLYSHIP. But for black people it’s a risk. A huge risk. And if it ends badly, there will be a buzz and we will be able to interview the chocked white people (maybe even in tears) whereas we can’t replace a life, or an expulsion. It’s great to chant and write #BlackLivesMatter, but is it really black lives that matter in this action? In any case, black comments and advice doesn’t seem to matter.
In this event multiple messages have been posted by worried black people wanting to know if the protest was authorised (for the protection of people concerned) and if the black organisations had been contacted. These messages were taken with contempt, the award probably goes to a young white person who has declared to a hyper engaged black woman (RaeRae LaCray Moore) that if she didn’t wan’t to support people of colour, she wasn’t forced to come (because, you know, SHE surely knows better how to support POCs). When asking if the black organisations were contacted, we are told that Lous and Yakusa support it, in the same way one brandishes their black friend when accused of racism.
What is dangerous in the performativity and appropriation of this fight, other than the question of the permits and the safety of people we proclaim loudly to protect, is the invisibilisation of black people in their own movements (once again) and the fact that even the origin of this event (not the movement, I’m talking about the event) is found in a paternalistic, colonial, and racist, process. In fact, the reason stated for the creation of this event by a non-black person was that in her perspective “nothing was being done”. The necessary arrogance to the launch of the event rests in the persistent and maintained stereotype that black people (particularly those who are not seen as Westernised in our countries, like African Americans) don’t know how to organise, are too lazy or too slow to act. That it doesn’t matter much how much the organisers know about the topic, their whiteness and their proximity to whiteness grants them immediate superior knowledge. To the point that the expertise of the people who are actually concerned is silenced repeatedly and seen as a whim.
To be non-white AND non-black offers no protection against this type of dynamics. And if you want effective social movements, you need to let the concerned people lead them (LGBTQI+ friends, what would you say of a pride organised entirely by straight people?).
Under the risk of repeating myself, it’s not a question of PARADING your support but of truly FIGHTING racism, starting with the one you’ve internalised.
Here's the BLM Belgium FB Group
Black Lives Matter Belgium - Solidarity group
Good, i hope it makes them start finally start showing a little more restraint in these coming days and from here on out
