Ashleigh Shackelford
Sorry, laughing too much to continue...
Posted on 07/16/2016 4:44:21 PM PDT by dynachrome
In the last two years that I’ve organized around antiblack violence and within the #BlackLivesMatter movement, I’ve witnessed white people showing up more and more to protests and rallies. At first, when we were protesting for Mike Brown for months in 2014, personally I was a lot more open to welcoming white allies who wanted to come out and help us fight. My personal/political naiveté and the need for more bodies trumped questioning their motives in the heat of the moment of something so important.
But after a while, I started realizing that trying to work with white people in direct actions became extremely triggering and tasking. I would witness many white people show up and want to be in the front — not to protect us, but to be visible and be in a photo. There would be swarms of white anarchists showing up, chanting “F*ck the Police,” completely disrupting our original chants and heightening the potential for violence against the Black protestors. Easily though, the anarchists almost outdo the groups of #AllLivesMatter folks who come out to walk in the protest but miss the entire point — even when most of the Black people call them out.
(Excerpt) Read more at wearyourvoicemag.com ...
More:
“We are marching, yelling, singing, physically and mentally exhausted because WHITE PEOPLE ARE KILLING US. So when I see white people show up to rally excited and smiling, ready to march like it’s a hobby — I’m disgusted and absolutely f*cking livid. When I witness white people taking up space, pushing myths of whiteness as political truth or using white saviorism to reframe their power and privilege, I’m ready to fight.
If whate and black were swapped in this example the left and BLM would be crying racism from the rooftops.
Perhaps we should all show up?
And their arguments in that case were proven to be completely false. The evidence was so lopsided even Eric Holder himself was forced to admit it after participating in stirring up the emotions of people unnecessarily.
Wow. The BLMers find white libtards almost as annoying as I do. Who knew? Maybe we can make a deal...
Facts/truth do not matter to the BLM. Hitler called it the “will to power”. Stalin just did it.
LOOOOOOOL!!!
The comments section is even worse than the article if that is even possible. It’s scary people like this walk among us...they are literally insane.
Ashleigh Shackelford is a queer, nonbinary Black fat femme writer, artist, and cultural producer. Ashleigh is a contributing writer at Wear Your Voice Magazine and For Harriet. Read more at Facebook.com/AshleighShackelford. Support my emotional and intellectual labor by donating to: PayPal.me/AshleightheLion.
I would witness many white people show up and want to be in the front — not to protect us, but to be visible and be in a photo.
There’s this liberal white female judge in the Birmingham area that likes the photo opportunities at any public event concerning blacks. I believe for so many of these liberal kooks, it’s about job security. I am sure it helps when she’s trying to get reelected in a mostly black district.
This is particularly my favorite section:
Entitlement.
2. Reparations.
Nothing you have is yours. Let me be clear: Nothing you have is yours. Also, Let me be see through: Reparations are not donations, because we are not your charity, tax write off, or good deed for the day. You are living off of stolen resources, stolen land, exploited labor, appropriated culture and the murder of our people. Nothing you have is yours.
Reparations for us are not only necessary because we are economically harmed, exploited and stolen from — while the violence against us is never acknowledged — but because in order for us to create and move work for Black liberation, it requires resources and MONEY. We live in a white supremacist capitalist world, so ain’t no spinning webs of lies around “money isn’t the answer.” It is because money and exploitation and power are interconnected concepts of violence. Y’all spent hundreds of years selling, mutilating, raping and beating our bodies and labor but you think money doesn’t matter to our freedom and liberation? Cute. Write me a check for this shade because it comes with 400 years of trauma.
We need housing, transportation, food, clothes, free space for meetings and work space; we need laptops, cell phones, encrypted systems for communication, solar power and LAND. Stop playing. Y’all really thought pulling up to the protest in your Hyundai was gonna be enough? Nah. You have to give us everything we need and more, because even if it means you go without — it doesn’t matter because that’s how we been living for 400+ years. Reparations will never be negotiable. So if you’re not willing to talk money, you are not here for #BlackLivesMatter as a movement or for us as individuals.
>>But after a while, I started realizing that trying to work with white people in direct actions became extremely triggering and tasking. I would witness many white people show up and want to be in the front — not to protect us, but to be visible and be in a photo. There would be swarms of white anarchists showing up, chanting “F*ck the Police,” completely disrupting our original chants and heightening the potential for violence against the Black protestors.
LOL. Black people create a racist, nationalist movement and it turns violent on Day One. But then it turns deadly violent and suddenly THAT’s Whitey’s fault too.
You’ve been free for 150 friggin’ years. Time to grow up and take responsibility.
Ashleigh Shackelford
Sorry, laughing too much to continue...
I can’t understand why any white person would want to attend a racist event by a movement based on lies.
“Hands up, don’t shoot” did not happen.
“white people show up and want to be in the front”
the ‘selfie’ generation.
Reparations started 8 years ago. Anyone want to call it something different...it isn’t just monetary.
Stupidity / dishonesty doesn’t even begin to describe how off base those comments are. People who think like that live in an imaginary world completely devoid of reality...she’s chosen to be completely miserable - no one else did that to her. She doesn’t want to work and earn a living like everyone else, therefore, those that do ‘stole’ it from her.
8 years ago? Reparations started in 1964.
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