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Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color

Why is the title different?

We like to have fun here.

What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.

What are the basic rules of the community?

  1. Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.

  2. This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.

  3. Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.

  4. No sectarianism: This is an identity channel not a channel for you all to complain about why XYZ isn't the "one true leftism". Take that to another place.

  5. Stupidpol is not allowed. Stupidpol is class reductionist. We are an identity community. Thinking like stupidpol ignores the struggles of the oppressed, their voices, and their need for unique support. Nothing says oppression more than someone saying that the identity you have is "not real" and that if you only thought like them you'd see what your "real" identity is. Mods reserve the right to ban users and content who promote stupidpol, stupidpol memes, and other class reductionist thinking.

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I apologize for a bit of a delay this time around. @[email protected] will be taking a hiatus from Hexbear to redirect focus to local organizing efforts. For the time being, I will be taking over the posting of EM POC weekly threads.

With that aside, how's everyone doing? Any exciting news, funny memes or stories, or interesting takes? We'd love to hear it all!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is. That's why whenever whites say that black Americans didn't free themselves from slavery because white people did it for them is probably their most bald-faced lie.

White people would keep slavery if there wasn't the threat of black revolution hanging over their heads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

whenever whites say that black Americans didn't free themselves from slavery because white people did it for them

What an absolutely disgusting thing of them to say!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahistorical too. Nat Turner showed white America at the time that they were not needed for liberation. Nice to have white people on your side, but absolutely not necessary. Many of the union soldiers were ex-slaves/ freed men that were looking to end slavery.

Black Americans freed themselves, despite a white onslaught.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if the fetishization of John Brown was because the whites could better identify with him than with Nat Turner even though Nat Turner's actions were more successful. Not to dunk on JB, he did an objectively good thing too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You're right about Nat Turner, if he was white there would've been several movies about him made across the decades. The man spearheaded the change in rhetoric among whites and destroyed the 2 myths: that slaves loved being slaves and slaves weren't smart enough to stage a rebellion let alone be successful in it.

Depending on who you read, some people credit his rebellion as one of the events that led to the civil war.

He was a goddamn legend.

Can't make many movies with JB because he unfortunately wasn't as successful. Still badass tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is. That's why whenever whites say that black Americans didn't free themselves from slavery because white people did it for them is probably their most bald-faced lie.

All I say is "Haitian Revolution", beyotch...

Btw, if there weren't that much kkkrakkas to out-populate them, I'd suppose the Black Americans would've certainly fought them, a l'Haiti...