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Ahavati
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I’ve been thinking about something. It’s Pride month. I’m noticing an absence of rainbows and such. So I contacted some of my local LGTBQA+ folks, and they all said they KNOW the struggle of our black, brown, (not white) friends and family. Right now, there is something more important going on in America. Those that normally would be shouting “Happy Pride Month!” are now shouting “Black Lives Matter!”

#blacklivesmatter
#happypridemonth

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Ahavati said:I’ve been thinking about something. It’s Pride month. I’m noticing an absence of rainbows and such. So I contacted some of my local LGTBQA+ folks, and they all said they KNOW the struggle of our black, brown, (not white) friends and family. Right now, there is something more important going on in America. Those that normally would be shouting “Happy Pride Month!” are now shouting “Black Lives Matter!”

#blacklivesmatter
#happypridemonth


https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-man-diamond-district-threats-charged

Do #jewishlivesmatter when they are threatened by terrorist offshoots of BLM?

Does BLM clean house?

Ahavati
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I Am A Person Too

Lighter skins, I now refer,
not human beings since we're blacks to you.
Am I not worthy of the air you breathe?
Do you see less than nothing when you look at the colour of my skin?
Why must I ask your permission to be alive,
When we were all made from the same matter
and red blood flows through our veins.

If you cut do you not bleed?
Does it not hurt?
Can you not feel?
Am I not worthy to walk with my head held high?
Maybe give my children a chance of a happy life?
Why must we teach our sons to submit, remove their crowns and bow down to anyone but God?
Why must we teach our daughters to hide in the shadows, cover their crowns and believe that they are not beautiful?
When everything God made was in the image and likeness of him.

Why must we please you, lighter skins?
Why do you fear our strength in numbers?
When we only fight for the things that’s right
Such as mankind
and human kindness.
Is it too much to ask that we coexist together
on this earth made for all of us
or would you rather we walk the plank,
dive into a great abyss of darkness never to exist?
 no matter how many of our kings and Queens are killed,
Our blood will continue to flow through the earth and through you,
Whether it runs on the streets, when we’re buried, we create the fertile soil that feeds you
I call it your privilege.
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https://georgiastatesignal.com/blexit-atlanta-why-black-americans-are-leaving-the-democratic-party/

Tyler Moore, a Georgia State student and treasurer for Turning Point GSU, the Georgia State chapter of Turning Point USA, felt that black people are forced to be Democrats and Blexit allows them to think differently.

“Many blacks that vote Democratic are actually conservative,” Moore said. “Blexit allows blacks to say that if these aren’t your values, you should be able to vote a different way.”

Blexit and its connections to Turning Point has been the subject of intense controversy, especially for its strong support of President Donald Trump, despite a long history of allegations of racism against him

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Ahavati said:. . .

ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕖 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕤
ℕ𝕠𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖

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Woke to No Privilege - Seal the Divide

An author originally  
from Africa, like me  
 
by privilege of her  
more toned skin  
announces as fact  
what I think
 
and says she’s black to me  
just because of my skin  
 
with even more
accusing questions  
delusional to my mind  
 
stereotyping me  
with impunity  
 
What vile person defames me  
to say that I make her  
beg to survive?  
 
Do I really see her audience?  
Do you?  
 
You who oppress me  
with words sent
...to another  
 
She speaks a truth  
multiple ways  
as an angel of light  
 
So I answer my angel  
I say  
 
I am black  
my sister  
 
and long ago  
we shared mothers  
 
It is no privilege  
to be met  
with stony disdain  
 
on any side  
 
Bigotry wounds  
the core  
of everyone
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I AM Black to Destroy Privilege and Honor My Human Ancestry

No one shall separate me
from my sisters

Not dispersion
nor cold winters

Not harsh opinion

Not the cursed
Seeds of “color”

Defying our one
human parentage

Honor thy Fathers
and Mothers

Who birthed
you in Africa

Ahavati
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Valeriyabeyond said:

ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕗 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕖 𝕤𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕤
ℕ𝕠𝕥 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕒𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖


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Klan leader charged over driving car into Black Lives Matter protesters

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/klan-leader-charged-harry-rogers-virginia


poet Anonymous

Like I said

JohnnyBlaze said:I'm thrilled to witness *almost everyone* making great use of this thread

Trying to distract attention away from opinions you disagree with - this will always backfire because the lack of self control demonstrated prevails.

People recognize the difference between a genuine interest expressed in a subject and a compulsive need to drown out the opinions of others for whatever personal reason disguised as a semblance of debate.


Ahavati said:Klan leader charged over driving car into Black Lives Matter protesters

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/klan-leader-charged-harry-rogers-virginia



A perfect example.

Ahavati
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JohnnyBlaze said:Like I said

A perfect example.


Except I'm laughing at Val's comment, not the incident you quoted!

poet Anonymous

Ahavati said:

Except I'm laughing at Val's comment, not the incident you quoted!


LOL of course - not a funny incident at all.

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HOW COME
there is no group demanding
that those Africans in Africa
WHO'S FOREFATHERS
Ripped apart whole family's
Murdered  
those who fought back
and the ones
who survived
SOLD
IN TO SLAVERY
should they not
bend the knee
and say sorry

Ahavati
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This article is three-years old, and the final part of a very eye-opening series; however, more pertinent than ever today.

The backlash against Black Lives Matter is just more evidence of injustice

This article is the last in the Black Lives Matter Everywhere series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace Foundation. To mark the presentation of the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize to the Black Lives Matter Global Network, the authors reflect on the roots of and responses to a movement that has re-ignited a global conversation about racism.

https://theconversation.com/the-backlash-against-black-lives-matter-is-just-more-evidence-of-injustice-85587

poet Anonymous

Ahavati said:This article is three-years old, and the final part of a very eye-opening series; however, more pertinent than ever today.

The backlash against Black Lives Matter is just more evidence of injustice

This article is the last in the Black Lives Matter Everywhere series, a collaboration between The Conversation, the Sydney Democracy Network and the Sydney Peace Foundation. To mark the presentation of the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize to the Black Lives Matter Global Network, the authors reflect on the roots of and responses to a movement that has re-ignited a global conversation about racism.

https://theconversation.com/the-backlash-against-black-lives-matter-is-just-more-evidence-of-injustice-85587


* soaks article in along with moar coffee * ☕🌞

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it is our past
that chases the present
and our present
is slowly
slipping back
into the same old circle
of misery and pain
where I am stronger
so what you love
and what you have
I claim

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