Minus the Patriarchal/Patrilineal component of the concept, Black Americans are owed filial piety ... from folks like Awkwafina and Bruno Mars, not censorship nor just props and pandering. Gratitude, not to American nationalism (Colonialism, Imperialism, and anti-Blackness), but to the people whose very struggle to survive with some sense of dignity and cultural continuity against these forces allowed others to do so similarly.

https://racebaitr.com/2018/11/13/appropriation-is-not-a-matter-of-authenticity/

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We are literally blind to reality when reality is filtered through only one lens, in this case the lens of whiteness/class privilege.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/newsroom-diversity-media-race-journalism

Here are a few online publications run and written by folks of color. There are definitely more, and I can't wait to read them.
https://racebaitr.com/
https://blackyouthproject.com/
https://ediciones-ineditos.com/

#news #RaceBaitR #BlackYouthProject #EdicionesIneditos

For anyone else whose income is based on sitting around doing mindless work, here are some engaging socio-economic podcasts to help you make it through:

https://soundcloud.com/rustbeltabolitionradio/dispatches-from-zapatista-territory

https://soundcloud.com/anticapitalist-millennials/episode-19-the-black-giving

#soundcloud #zapatista #reparations #abolition #blackgivingfund #racebaitr

Dispatches from Zapatista Territory

In this episode, “Dispatches from Zapatista Territory,” we speak with two of our fellow co-producers about their recent trip to autonomous Zapatista communities in the highlands of the Mexican southea

I just discovered Racebaitr. I want to quit life and read it all...

"Recreations of anti-Black violence in “This is America“ reek of an excessiveness intended not to care for Black people who live against the overwhelming force portrayed, but for those who have no vested interest in Black people surviving the destruction on display. "
http://racebaitr.com/2018/05/29/carried-by-corpses-this-is-america-or-the-ingenuity-of-lynching-in-10-parts/

"The polarizing responses to Killmonger reflect our inability to deal with Black childhood trauma"
http://racebaitr.com/2018/02/27/polarizing-responses-killmonger-reflect-inability-deal-black-childhood-trauma/

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Carried by corpses: 'This is America' or the ingenuity of lynching in 10 parts - RaceBaitR

What better way to know we are still alive than shoot ourselves and watch the blood pour out of another Black man’s skull?

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