how did i miss this? orientation to anti-Black racism in the north american ummah 101 + important discussions the continuous erasure of Black muslims + co-optation of language of Black liberation struggle w o addressing anti-Black racism in non-Black muslim communities SYRIANS APPROPRIATING THE WORK OF QUEER BLACK WOMEN THRU #SYRIANLIVESMATTER SLOGAN W O ADDRESSING ANTI BLACK RACISM IN SYRIAN + SYRIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES , THIS IS FOR YOU TOO. stop perpetuating this horrible phenomena in our community, where we lament no one caring about syrian deaths (which is a valid and real pain, globally our genocide has been ignored and this has has material implications) but as i discussed with Shiyam Galyon last night, it makes no sense to blame our lack of global empathy/attention on other marginalized groups, specifically Black americans!!!! that conclusion is the result of racist logic! stop throwing ferguson under the bus because you want people to pay attention to our revolution! syrians, listen up bc we have a lot of work to do, specifically around dismantling colonial-age systems of classist, colorist, anti-Black attitudes in the U.S. if i had the energy i would write this in arabic-someone wanna do that for me? excerpt: Ferguson is a Muslim-American issue because we frequently appropriate Black imagery and ideas with no history of aligning ourselves with Black struggle. We quote Malcolm X to counter government surveillance of our mosques, and cite Martin Luther King, Jr. to relate the struggle of Syrians to an American audience. During the siege on Gaza months ago, we raised banners of Black Civil Rights activists ravaged by police dogs, and posted pictures of Black Civil Rights protestors violently water-hosed. Ideas and images displaced form their original Black context, and pasted to a foreign framework in order to pronounce the plight of Palestinians. Over and again, we borrow from Black struggle as a means to advance our political or strategic ends. And without pause, condemn Black victims or look the other way during ongoing moments of Black crisis. Both yesterday, and again today.
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