I just don’t trust him. Personally he rubs me the wrong way.

word i never looked into him tbh but i know he has some takes on twitter that a lot of ppl disagree with. film is insightful nonetheless

Gonna check it out when I have time.

I’ve been working 7 Days a week. 😩

It depends on where you live, ethnicity, gender, class and setting for discrimination.

That's why I ask for personal experience

How have i not been in this thread wtf embarrassed. Better late than never i guess

My cuz recommended some books recently:

An Autobiography by D*** Gregory
Black Rage by William Grier
Slugg: A Boy's Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Tony Lewis Jr.
Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys by Jawanza Kunjufu

im so f***ing sick

thanks for the heads up, brodie!

Crazy how being black means you always have to research the racism issues of a place you want to visit before going there. S*** makes me mad

I think this post and a lot of the general non black conscious around this even people trying to best to help fails to truly to connect because often times their bridge to this needs to be built through documented tales of trauma and terror when their is a real paranoia and fear that infects day to day black life in every second and interaction due to existing in a state that treats us as creatures. The hate and genocide that built this country was never truly counteracted and confronted by its preparators so its forms and folklore have just transformed and never stopped propagating.

But to answer your question: almost been smoked twice by white people/cops for being black wrong place/wrong time, been profiled at my university, lots of strange looks/avoidance at my university etc

Good luck
Gotta visit Canada again, also a place that's done terrible things but their policies on citizenship are nice and I was born there

thanks

Yea I keep hearing about those citizenship policies, hmm interesting. This rona s*** gotta simmer down so we can travel again

I feel you
Was trying to hit up my homie in France this summer

Stay safe tho, people are wilding

Stay strong my man and let's hope for the best in the future, the current events really show people are fed up, will and want to stand up for their lives and rights.

I come from a country in Europe which was under Soviet rule and to some extent it has some parallels with POC and their history in the US. But it's not deep rooted anymore like it is in the US.

It really just depends on where you live and s***.

I can speak as someone who is half caucasian, half Nigerian, growing up in a rural town in Wisconsin, I was hella exposed to racism almost immediately when I was a kid. So much so, I internalized most of it throughout high school. It wasn't until college that I realized that a lot of the s*** I had experienced and thought was not true and was detrimental to people who look like me.

Racism is real, and as you see by these protests, cops don't give a f*** about "restoring the peace." Malcolm X got deemed an extremist for saying "by any means necessary" but cops do the same s*** to "keep the peace" while also simultaneously being protected by the law for their unjust behavior.

Being black in America basically means you are on the constant defense. You can never be sure of people's intentions. You are exposed to microaggressions, overt racism, and institutional racism. I was fortunate enough to be able to go to school and go to college and pursue a degree. Even to this day though, I constantly think about how people who look like me don't get those opportunities based on the sole reason that they are black, and the community that they grew up in.

My experience is unique to a lot of black Americans. I can tell you, no matter what your situation is, no matter how rich, how poor, how educated or how disenfranchised, most people don't give a f*** and will invalidate your existence and your experiences. Hopefully that sheds a little more light on the issue for you

Yeah I missed it as well dude. Hey, now more than ever, we need to be informing people about this s***. It is extremely important

And that's gonna follow us for the rest of our lives

Thanks a lot for the reply. Keep going, do your thing and I wish you well 🙏

Thank you brother, you too homie. Appreciate you taking the time to understand

my literature goats!

interview took place in a new liberated Nigeria.
Take the time to watch if you'd like to learn more about life during those times and how literature helped bring light to the societal problems

Beware of any leftists, even Black trying to spin this s***.

Never come to the Life section but we here now and we must remain powerful y’all