UMichigan Black Student Union withdraws from campus pro-palestine group b/c of "rampant anti-Blackness festering within it…too pervasive to overcome"
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Fill Collins
I didn't mean to verge!
jews and arabs are both hook nosed cancers
The Palestinians are just as Anti-Black as all those other groups but ain't no telling what really happened between the U of M's Black Student Union and Tahrir.
GO BLUE!!!!
Who going to win that game tomorrow Michigan or Texas?
GO BLUE!!!!
Who going to win that game tomorrow Michigan or Texas?
Expect people that still refer to their Afro population as slaves to not be anti-Black, foolish breh(ette)s.
I Really Mean It
Veteran
i guarantee that cism reached its pitch when kamala became the nominee. once she refused to placate the protesters, those brown allies turned 
overnight.
overnight.to be honest, its like they think after getting rid of Biden that they thought they could keep making more demands when they didn’t realize that getting kamala was already a major concession to those whining about Biden’s feasibility in the electioni guarantee that cism reached its pitch when kamala became the nominee. once she refused to placate the protesters, those brown allies turned
Good for them.
Should be on the sidelines anyway because they — as a group and a people — have their own fish to fry instead of riding someone else’s cause on some “enemy of my enemy” shít.
Should be on the sidelines anyway because they — as a group and a people — have their own fish to fry instead of riding someone else’s cause on some “enemy of my enemy” shít.
i guarantee that cism reached its pitch when kamala became the nominee. once she refused to placate the protesters, those brown allies turned
Expect people that still refer to their Afro population as slaves to not be anti-Black, foolish breh(ette)s.
University of Michigan Black Students Accuse Anti-Zionist Group of ‘Pervasive’ Racism - Algemeiner.com
The University of Michigan's Black Student Union (BSU) has resigned from the anti-Zionist student group Tahrir Coalition, citing "pervasive" anti-Black discrimination fostered by its mostly Arab and Middle Eastern leadership. "Black identities, voices, and bodies are not valued in this...
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University of Michigan Black Students Accuse Anti-Zionist Group of ‘Pervasive’ Racism
Law enforcement clash with pro-Hamas demonstrators at the University of Michigan on Aug. 28, 2024. Photo: Brendan Gutenschwager/X
The University of Michigan’s Black Student Union (BSU) has resigned from the anti-Zionist student group Tahrir Coalition, citing “pervasive” anti-Black discrimination fostered by its mostly Arab and Middle Eastern leadership.
“Black identities, voices, and bodies are not valued in this coalition, and thus we must remove ourselves,” BSU said in a statement posted on Instagram. “The anti-Blackness within the coalition has been too pervasive to overcome, and we refuse to endure it.”
Proclaiming its continued support for the anti-Zionist movement, the group continued, “The BSU’s solidarity with the Palestinian people is unwavering, but the integrity of the Tahrir Coalition is deeply questionable. We refuse to subject ourselves and our community to the rampant anti-Blackness that festers within it. For this reason, we will no longer be a part of the Tahrir Coalition.”
BSU did not cite specific examples of the racism to which Black students were allegedly subjected, but its public denouncement of a group which has become the face of the pro-Hamas movement at the University of Michigan is significant given the history of cooperation between BSU and anti-Zionist groups on college campuses across the US.
BSU’s Black members are not, however, the first to openly clash with anti-Zionist Arabs.
When Arab and Palestinian anti-Zionist activists launched a barrage of racist attacks against African Americans on social media in August, Black TikTok influencers descended on the platform in droves to denounce the comments, with several announcing that they intended not only to remove Gaza-related content from their profiles but also to cease engaging in anti-Zionist activity entirely. The conversation escalated in subsequent posts, touching on the continuance of Black slavery in the Arab world and what young woman called “voracious racism” against African Americans.
“What’s even crazier is that earlier people were like, oh these are bots, no — this is how people really feel. And she made a video that’s a real human being that feels exactly that way,” one African American woman said. “These are people who feel like they are entitled to the support of Black people no matter what, that they get to push us around and tell us who the hell we get to vote for if we support them … They’ve lost their minds.”
An African American male said, “Why don’t we talk about the Arab slave trade? And keep in mind that the Arabs have enslaved more Black people than the Europeans combined.” Another African American woman accused Arabs of not denouncing slavery in Antebellum America.
The history of anti-Black racism in the Arab world runs deep, experts have argued. In 2021, writer Cirien Saadeh said that Arabs living in the city of Detroit, Michigan often call Black men in their communities “abeed,” which means “slave,” and she alleged that Arab business owners “drain financial resources and don’t work to build relationships” with their African American neighbors and customers. The following year, Jenin Al Shababi wrote in Diverse Educators that “racism is a virus that has embedded itself into the heart and soul of Arab communities,” explaining that it was a Palestinian store owner who prompted the killing of
George Floyd in police custody in the spring of 2020. A decade earlier, Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa, who has herself spread antisemitic conspiracies and tropes, noted that a Black Ethiopian domestic worker, Alem Dechesa, committed suicide after being abused, physically and emotionally, by her Arab employer. Thousands of Black domestic workers in the Middle East, she added, suffer similar violations of their human rights.Sayyid Qutb, one of the most acclaimed Muslim intellectuals of the 20th century, once described jazz music, widely regarded as one of Black America’s greatest contributions to American music and culture, as “artistic primitiveness.” Writing in his 1951 essay “The America I Have Seen: In the Scale of Human Values,” he said, “[Jazz] is this music that the savage bushmen created to satisfy their primitive desires, and their desire for noise on the one hand, and the abundance of animal noises on the other.”
As The Algemeiner has previously reported, anti-Zionist students in the US have hurled racist abuse and expletives at Black government leaders and college officials. When an anti-Zionist student group at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC staged an unprecedented protest of a talk by US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the university’s Elliot School of International Affairs in April, its members chanted “Zionist imperial puppet” and “imperial blackface.” They also distributed pamphlets which accused her of being a “puppet,” suggesting that her race precluded the possibility of her being an agent of her own destiny. Later, according to the university’s official student newspaper, the group encircled Dean of Student Affairs Colette Coleman, an African American woman, outside the building. One member of the group began “clapping in her face” while others screamed at her.
That same month, at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, anti-Zionists occupying an administrative building verbally abused a Black officer, whom they accused of betraying his racial identity. “Shame on you!” they shouted at him. Someone else said, “You are Black in America, and you’re not standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?”
Such contempt for African Americans was palpable during August’s social media row.
“Keep Palestinians names out of your f—king mouths when you’re trying to defend your decision for voting for Kamala,” an Arab influencer said, referring to Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who is Black. TikTok user “Dan1ahan” charged that Black Americans “switched up 180 on Palestinians and people who are Palestinian activists the second we have a Black woman running for office,” describing the alleged betrayal as “disgusting.” Touching on the upcoming US presidential election, one Arab woman said that all Black people want is a “token ethnic president” in office.
Rejection by a community that many African Americans have long considered as members of a “coalition of color” was painful, one user lamented.
“We spend our money with you,” she said. “We stand in solidarity with you, and you keep asking for more, and more, and more, and it’s never enough.”
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I got bushed for calling this out…theres a LARGE number of black students and politicians who crashed out over this issue and theres gonna need to be some reckoning about political priorities and why this backfired so much more on black people than anyone else.
Theres been numerous debates about this shyt and its like people are just trying to hope discussing it doesn’t shine a light on the divisions
Ignoring this isn’t going to help…they keep ignoring these divisions in black voters going back to the ADOS movement and now the dems have a problem they can’t really tackle online.
The Algemeiner is Zionist propaganda, but the story is a bad look for the pro Palestine movement.
And yeah, Arabs have never really been friends of Black folks.
And yeah, Arabs have never really been friends of Black folks.
The Fade
I don’t argue with niqqas on the Internet anymore
Dealt with racist Palestine supporters calling us degenerates a few weeks ago.
Seeing more people see what Frank Wilderson was talking about. Unfortunate
If Arabs want our support why don’t they take that money they pull from our neighborhoods and start lobbying BA’s? Since muthafukkas wanna act like we don’t feel fukked up when a journalist gets killed over there
Seeing more people see what Frank Wilderson was talking about. Unfortunate
If Arabs want our support why don’t they take that money they pull from our neighborhoods and start lobbying BA’s? Since muthafukkas wanna act like we don’t feel fukked up when a journalist gets killed over there
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