My 9 day vacation just started. Feels good. 
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2024
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I think I need to rage and vent in an extreme and I'm fighting everything I've been taught about being a calm and polite black person.
I'm activity trying to find a healthy outlet, but I'm also annoyed with the racism that shames people of color for having complex emotions. I think I'm going to try to shout and vent in my car, but I've got fear that someone will overhear and call the cops or whatever.
That sounds fucking terrifying, especially that last part.
But I getcha. I'm not Black, but during school, at least, I felt trapped and judged, you know?
My therapist was also racist to me (at least one of 'em that I had before I moved on to the next).
Thanks, I think you can totally relate to having your emotions policed by racists. It's rough though then it's a therapist. You're paying them to be on your side and they couldn't even manage that.
It sucks to struggle, but I hope we can find some peace with it soon.
Thank you, and yeah, it can be hard when the ones you need on your side... aren't.
Well, I got a good therapist now (and one who is Autistic like me) so that helps. Honestly, that definitely helped me out a bunch. I think that was half the battle, even.
Go for a drive on the freeway and yell about whatever. I do that!
Most people don't notice as you zoom by and, even if they do, you're in the freeway and you zip by. It's a good place to vent. Just don't go too fast and keep your eyes on the road.
Tagging people from the previous thread. Enjoy!
Much 🙏...
Eyyo
Waddup tho 
'Sup
Aw, thanks for the tag! 
NP!
It’s weird how hard people will use the one-drop rule. My nephew is mixed with his father being a brown mestizo and mother being a very pale English woman. Their kid is by all means a white boy and yet they insist he’s actually a little tan when the kid can’t even be out in the sun too long because he starts to get burnt.
The more I think about it, the more it seems America, as a concept, is the basis of modern-day racism and white supremacy, since its culture created that same one-drop rule all around...
Today I got my first haircut in 15 years. I still have long hair. It's hella rad.
noice
On the topic of “obscure” works, I would recommend Henry Winston’s Strategy for a Black Agenda, which is my favorite work on such topics as Pan-Africanism and violence vs. non-violence (and whether and how to use both or when).
YES YES YES YES. Big rec here, also "We Will Shoot Back", by Akinyele Omowale Umoja.
You've read it too?
It's on my org's current reading list, Strategy is. I think I got in too late for their reading circle on We Will Shoot Back, I've been making headway through that between my coursework this semester
I love that book and its sequel and, since I'm apart of the CPUSA, I have a healthy respect for Henry Winston already, who helped start NAARPR and NAIMSAL.
(NAIMSAL especially helped spear-head the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S., pressing for sanctions on South Africa, which eventually did happen, over its apartheid system.)
Web dubois' black reconstruction and harry Haywood's black Bolshevik are two ancient tombs full of unimaginable knowledge that the movement has yet to truly contend with
They're great books.
Haywood's book was a pain to hunt down when I first heard of it, can confirm it is a good book, need to read more Dubois.
Time to start using Z Library
When I first looked for it I couldn't find it there and had to dl off archive.org's library which took a good min, but I want to say this was well over a year ago.
Archive.org for books isn't a bad bet though.
There's always this, for example (Ismail's archive):
Right. I forget what I was trying to check out now, it wasn't related to theory, a translation of some ancient bronze age poetry book, but the only way to get the book was to check it out and the whole process was so glitchy.
Was it in Ismail's archive?
Black Bolshevik no, idr where I found it on archive.org, I've long forgotten what the bronze age poetry book was even called, so don't ask on that one, lol.
oh hahhahaha
To be honest, Henry Winston's work has a few antiquated or unpopular opinions, such as in regard to "Maoist China."
But that's kinda what I like about it. Either way, you'll come away from it with a new perspective.
Also, remember: you don't have to do the bonus question if you don't want to.
Cheers!