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Obviously not expecting a (white) American site to gaf about today so lemme talk a bit more about Windrush Day and the Black British experience:

I feel like the Black British experience is constantly one of work and struggle. Our parents and grandparents lived through colonial and post colonial (using the term lightly) rule just to end up working and serving the imperial core, targeted by the same government that invited them here. A lot of the time its phrased as a choice but in reality what else could they have done? Ts and Cs apply bc for some West African Brits their parents were middle class back home but for me and others our families grew up in poverty in places still recovering from slavery and colonialism.

Britain whitewashes the history of Black immigrants, literally in the sense we're not taught our own history of Black people in Britain and metaphorically by applying British individualist myths; that as long as you work hard, don't complain about it and love Britain you can be British too. But it erases, ignores and distorts the truth that the British state used our community as nothing more than a labour force to rebuild after WWII and actively targeted Black British communities with police surveillance, brutality and systemic racism. All whilst denying it of course and turning their nose up at the very accusation. Very British.

Black British contributions, West African and West Indian to be more specific don't just apply in terms of work but in terms of shaping culture. 'Roadman' has become a meme and a caricature (including by some Americans on here ik u lot love 'chav') with barely any connection to its Black British roots, even when the term gets used as an insult to mainly Black working class men or used as a British version of 'thug'. The grime scene is undeniably a staple of Black Britain yet it is pathologised and judged, moral panics about Black people's violence and yet capitalised and profitted off of by non Black Brits as an aesthetic. Everybody wants the tracksuits, the tunes and the terminology innit. To be 'road' means to be Black British yet when its time to talk culture, nobody wants to credit it us. All of a sudden its 'London culture'.

But it isn't all doom and gloom. There's so much history and culture here in our spaces. I'd be lying if I said growing up where I did was easy. But it has shaped my outlook and made me and I'll carry that with me forever. Our grandparents and parents came here with so little and made so much out of nothing. And I'll always honour that. Justice for the Windrush generation.

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Reblog if your profile pic is actually YOU .

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If you voted, please don't scroll without sharing this post. Mosab is raising funds for his wife and three daughters to escape Gaza before it is too late.

Over 70% of the goal is unmet, even after months of trying. Mosab and his family count on these donations to afford food and stay alive.

Lama, one of the 4 year old twins, is sick and in pain. She needs to be treated but the family cannot even afford basic food. Even the smallest support can be the difference between life and death.

Please help my friend out by sharing and donating.

Vetted by GazaVetters #520 and shared by @/90-ghost.

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hello communists in my phone. ilysm

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incredibly funny how they'll take "proof" that genai makes people not read about what they're writing and make unsound claims and then not read the fucking article

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Hey friends, baby Marxist here! I’m starting to feel like technology corrupts the pure soul of man. Has anyone tried turning back the wheel of history so that we can return to a state of perfect innocence?

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In wigan you’re as good as dead

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stalin

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RCP be like. Recruit a tonne of people who know nothing about communism beside a few aesthetic points and then sell them an overpriced collection of texts you can find for free at marxists.org

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the thrift store knows when you are not approaching it with the right spirit and will close you off from the cosmos

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glanced at my FYP and saw a twitter screenshot like (paraphrasing as closely as I can remember)

“little boys are so sweet and pure and then it's so heartbreaking seeing the world turn them into little misogynists. my 4y/o son now says ‘eww that's for girls’, ‘mom you can't do that you're a woman’. I asked what is going on at the daycare and they say it's from the other kids”

(1) did you make literally any attempt whatsoever to resist assigning that baby a sexgender at birth

(2) if that's not feasible where you live, did you make any attempt whatsoever to parent even slightly gender-neutrally? has that camab child ever been offered a dress or a doll? or have you talked to them and dressed them and named them and bought them toys and disciplined their behavior fully in line with enforcing their AGAB this entire time?

because my guess is that you, as a full-grown adult woman who effectively owns that child as your personal property, have eagerly helped enforce gender assignment on that child since before they were even born. and now you're indignant that your child-property is “a little misogynist”, and somehow you as their parent-owner feel victimized by your child-property for it

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German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich on a vintage postcard