anjaliauden:

the-black-bolin:

the-black-bolin:

bimuslimheaux:

bimuslimheaux:

Ayyy wassup yall!!! Guess what??? My first ever article just got published (yayyyy 😆)!!!! Can yall please support me by sharing, reading, and commenting? Also please considering donating to @blackgirldangerous so that they can keep paying writers like me to write about today’s pressing issues! 

My article is about non-Black people of color being anti-Black and taking responsibility for that anti-Blackness. More specifically it’s about Aziz Ansari and the anti-Blackness I saw on his show Master of None. Check it out at the link above!

hey fam i know you wanted to see it when it was published @the-black-bolin 👍🏽😁

Omg imma read it when i get home!

“But maybe, Aziz, you aren’t aware of how white supremacy—the same white supremacy that makes your people invisible—relies specifically upon anti-Blackness to function. Scot Nakagawa’s Blackness is the Fulcrum notes that anti-Black racism is at the fulcrum, or center, of white supremacy.

The idea is that white supremacy stays in power by resting upon anti-Black racism. So when you, and other anti-Black people of color, throw Black folks under the bus, you are upholding anti-Blackness which then contributes to white supremacy. Maybe you don’t see it, but fighting anti-Blackness is central to breaking down white supremacy to the benefit of all people of color.

People of color can be anti-Black in many ways, both consciously and unconsciously, through tools such as the Model Minority Myth and respectability politics. Even though they can never become white, some people of color think that by alienating and dehumanizing Black folks they can get closer to whiteness and privilege. This is not only detrimental to Black folks but, by the fulcrum model, detrimental to non-Black people of color as well.”

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