#Black Leftism

[kianavonna]

Making tumblr friends

Im only gonna try one more 'gain and give it everything ive got. I want to make more tumblr friends

IF YOU ARE A BLACK PERSON, 21 years old and up

Into fashion, gaming, luxury (but not like in a gross capitalist way, just thinking luxury is pretty and a deserved experience for all regardless of economic standing lol), or activism

ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE FROM THE HOOD (Because I am and want more friends from the same experience lol)

Let's be mutuals

[goodguydotmp3]

Martin Luther King was not a Conservative

I found this video to be pretty interesting, especially with election year making blue no matter who folx especially wild.

I will say I think his audience or at least expected audience is white folx and black social conservatives so the language is reflective of that

[ihavethemostobnoxiousmusictaste]

My Punk Tips for a DIY Lifestyle:

Thrift some black fabric (or grab an old black shirt you don't care for anymore), get a white fabric marker, posca, sharpie, or paint and make a bunch of patches to sew onto your clothes.

If you're a digital artist this is your time to shine! Make stencils, posters, design clothes (there are free templates online), and if you don't own a printer libraries will let you print for cheap and sometimes free. My library card allows me to print 10 pages for free.

Reuse everything or if you don't want it anymore donate it or recycle it.

Trash is very punk. Soda can tabs for instance can make for cool jewlery. It's all about creativity.

Drug store makeup is your best friend and honestly they're sometimes better than the luxury name brand products. Or hell even make some of your own.

If you need to order something I suggest etsy. Yes, some of it's expensive but you're supporting small artists and buissnesses rather than a corportation. It's also easier to find poc, queer, and neurodivergent buissnesses and artists.

Overall punk is about being creative. Just get creative and have fun!

[lilithism1848]

[troythecatfish]

America would be NOTHING without black people.

[mangopodcast]

I NEED YOUR HELP TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING:

Nowadays no one is racist. Even Nazis get offended if you call them racist. Even people covered with fascist tattoos get offended if you call them racist. Politicians who support racist policies don't see themselves as racist. Medical personnel who mistreat Black and POC intentionally are not *racist. C0ps who kill and harass Black and POC are not racist. Teachers who give Black and POC students a hard time are not racist.

Someone does something racist, you tell them "hey! That's racist" and they start crying, offended. "I'm not racist, how dare you?!" "I dated a Black person once" "I don't see color", and my personal favorite "you're the racist for calling me racist!"

There's no racism in this world because no one is racist. Racism is such a taboo nowadays. You are even afraid to discuss it on scial media.

If no one in this world is racist, then where is all this racism coming from?

[long-sleeved-sandwich]

something happened recently in my small town that i think is a microcosm of white “liberalism”. it’s not a secret that since a new juvenile detention center was built a few years ago, the high and middle schools have been targeting young black men, particularly young black men with special needs/mental illness/disabilities to fill it with. the school administrators and our local judge, a corrupt, nasty, crooked white woman, are rumoured to be making a ton of money as a part of this conspiracy. my grandmother, an advocate for special needs children, and my dad and aunt(teachers), have watched the school to prison pipeline with their own eyes, and my grandmother and several others in town have been trying to build a case for years against the judge and other corrupt individuals. recently however, an old white widow who has been a teacher at the high school for almost 50 years, and beloved by all, was fired for saying the n-word. she heard some students saying it and took a few minutes to educate them on why it’s racist to say it, but in doing so, she said it several times. some students videoed her and cut it up to make it seem like she was the racist one. the school promptly fired her. i think that’s a perfect representation of white “liberalism”. actively participating in systemic racism but robbing an old widow of her livelihood to maintain the superficial image of being politically correct.

[thenebulanebula]

Seen in The Black Country, England

[icarusxxrising]

I need y'all to understand that treating Fascists as bumbling nonhuman idiots is dangerous real fucking fast

Fascists are HUMANS. Fascists are humans with skills and intelligence and they use those to harm people.

Fascists can be your coworkers, your friends, your neighbors, your bosses, your parents, etc.

They are people who live with the same access to resources as most of us, sometimes with more access (police officers).

Fascists know how to doxx and avoid doxxing. Fascists often train in martial arts and in ways to harm people. Fascists put up stickers and graffiti, fascists evade police, fascists are actively finding ways to harm people.

Their ideology is abhorrent and needs to be ashes, but you cannot do that if you keep underestimating them. Trust me, if you continue to go about your day thinking "Fascists are dumb!" You will lull yourself into this false sense of safety and ignorance and it will knock you on your ass. Stop walking around with a big "I AM ANTIFA" shirt unless you're ready to possibly get hurt or even killed. Stop covering fascist stickers / posters / Graffiti / banners without checking out the area first to make sure they don't fucking follow you home. Wipe your images of Metadata so they don't find your location. Don't turn your backs to the fascists when you're countering them.

I get that we laugh at them and call them less intelligent or inhuman (which is fascistic in itself) to comfort ourselves but your coping will kill you. It's denialism.

Watching a proud boy vandalize a Walmart by destroy Bud Light is all fun and games until you realize "Oh yeah they're this violently angry because a trans person is on the can. They want to and will do this to trans people if given the chance".

Fascists are real people, with malicious fucking intentions, and if you at all want to stop them then you have to take them fucking seriously. While you laugh at them, they're organizing together and practicing fucking knife fights.

Get out there and take this seriously before it bites us in the ass. Because it will.

[seraphimfall]

to anyone protesting in memphis and other US cities: good luck and stay safe!

below are some sources i’ve decided to put together that you may find helpful. feel free to read through them and reblog this for others!

• list of your rights as a protestor

• list of things you’ll want to bring

• the basics of direct action

• guide to protecting your identity during and after

• legal support resources for protestors

• how to address tear gas exposure

• tips for organizing a demonstration

• tyre nichols memorial gofundme page

stay safe, and stay strong! ✧

[comrade-onion]

A Critique of the Western Left

The Western Left has been marred by infighting in recent years, effectively crippling any capacity it has to fight back against the vicious capitalist system it rightfully opposes.

In my eyes, I see two main contributing factors to the general incompetency of the Left in the Western world. Infighting and ineffective campaigning.

Infighting between sects within the left along niche ideological lines stunts its ability to grow its membership and influence by making the movement look irrelevant, hostile, and elitist. The right isn't divided along small ideological lines. They can and will cooperate to spread their collective hateful ideologies. To combat this effectively, we need to put our differences aside and unite along our common enemy: the capitalist system. Only when the abolition of capitalism has been undertaken can we afford to disagree on minor policy and theoretical differences.

Secondly, Leftist campaigning is so focused on ideological niches that it no longer appeals to the working people. The average worker is not concerned about who Gonzalo was. They are too busy worrying about food, about rent, about utilities and education, and safety. We need to campaign issues that are affecting the people the most. We NEED to appeal to the masses and embrace left-wing populism to garner the popular support needed to oppose fascism if we want any chance of facilitating positive and lasting change.

We have a common enemy, and we must not fight each other. Instead, we must work together for the good of the people and for the good of the planet.

[madamepestilence]

The Class Solidarity Flag

Alternate name: Class Consciousness Flag Credits: - Conglomerate flag: Myself - Colours: 1871 Paris Commune (Red), 1917 October Revolution (Red, Yellow), Spanish Civil War (socialist) Republicans (Red, Black), USSR (Red, Yellow) - Crossed arms: Sándor Pinczehelyi, "Hammer and Sickle" - Fist stylization: Black power fist - Yellow star: USSR, various socialist and communist groups - Book outline: Adobe Stock photos Image description: A black flag with a 1 to 2 ratio. In the centre are two red crossed fists at the wrists in solidarity, with an inverted, yellow, five-point star at the wrist junction. Above the crossed fists is an open red book.

Symbolism breakdown: In basic symbolism, the black and red colours represent Communism, liberation, and leftist ideology. The black may also be used to represent Anarchism.

This flag also uses the colour red and crossed fists to represent solidarity between different oppressed classes (e.g. black people, lower class workers, queer people, trans people, disabled people, etc.), and also uses the colour black to represent the sacrifices of people fighting for class liberation.

The star is used to represent humanity's solidarity under the Sun/Sol, as well as Polaris/The North Star, extending the scope of solidarity beyond nationalism to a full human scale.

The open book is used to represent the importance of education, especially in law, to help liberate oppressed classes.

This flag is intended to be flown above or beside other flags of oppressed classes (e.g. pride flags, the black power flag, the Communist flag, the Palestine flag, etc.), but may be flown alone to express solidarity or in times of class struggle.

[mrsblackruby]

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free Israeli pigs have resumed their bombing campaign Zionism, Racism, Imperialism, and Fascism must be combated these activities are threats to all life in and of itself.

[lilithism1848]

[hussyknee]

Idk why I keep trying to get neoliberals to understand that Biden has already lost the election next year because the genocide is the last straw after hemorrhaging voters with his policies the last three years, and that screaming at people to vote for him during the genocide he's funding is just going to make more people desert the Dems. It's like talking to a brick wall that gets vicious the more you try to explain.

But then it's not about winning for them. It's about white liberals finding a scapegoat for their dawning realization that their power structures are collapsing under them, that they've been betrayed by the establishment they devoted themselves to propping up. All that rage and panic finding an outlet in the young, the marginalized, the vulnerable and anybody who has sympathy for them. Because whites will never challenge power in any meaningful way. They know that the system was made for them, and believe their exclusion from its privileges is an aberration that can be fixed at the ballot box.

We know what we mean when we say "Blue MAGA". It's like the "liberal Zionists" in Israel right now. The leftist genociders, the liberal settlers, the progressive colonizers. Their "allyship" is actually just the benevolence of the oppressor, and any challenge to their power and privilege it is seen as ingratitude. They translate this to "betrayal" in their own heads, providing a rationale to use their whiteness to punish the oppressed as viciously as their "conservative" counterparts and make us into scapegoats for their loss of privilege. It's not "ideological slavery", it's ideological enslaving.

[lunityviruz]

This is for the crackers and coons of the site (@pure), I don’t understand why y’all can’t seem to grasp the idea that we can focus on multiple topics at once and that black people sticking up for themselves and correcting y’all mistakes doesn’t make them feds or psyops. Y’all wanna be the most perfect morally superior leftists ever but the moment someone criticizes you on your antiblack actions all hell breaks loose. Y’all wanna use black terms but ignore the black people tryna educate you on where the term originates from.