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anti-Blackness is willfully engaging in behavior that will eventually lead to more deaths of Black lives via activist rhetoric or actions.
Being pro-Black as it pertains to politics
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is when you engage in political strategies that protect Black lives. For example,
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anti-Blackness would be when a Black person calls you out for being a neo-liberal when you want to get Trump out of office.
Trump has made it clear that he is out to kill as many black/brown people as possible.
If you’re a Black person trying to buck the system with “protest the Democratic Party” rhetoric and messaging, then know that this is anti-Blackness.
Because 4 more years of Trump will absolutely get more Black people killed then a Biden/Harris ticket.
Anti-Blackness also looks like Black people who say not to vote because the system is jacked.
Folks, MLK was an extremely smart man who had extremely smart people around him.
When MLK was marching to get voting rights for Black people he understood that the system was jacked. Still, he did what he did because he knew the power of the vote despite the system being jacked was important.
The truth?
The ONLY way that we as Black folks are going to change the system w/less then 100 days to an election is to completely blow the whole thing up. And while that might sound real sexy to all of you who feel like you are ready to do so please also understand what I mean by this.
You all will literally have to GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE w/pitchforks, fire and nooses. You think I’m kidding? If you think I am, you’d be wrong.
You will literally have to sacrifice your lives – yes, potentially die to have this type of overthrowing of this administration happen.
Moreover, this will be the cause of more Black deaths than any other way.
We already know that this system is designed to have absolutely no problem killing Black people en masse, we have enough evidence to know that this is real.
Therefore, you must ask yourself – when you say we need to “boycott the Democratic ticket” I am left to think do YOU know that this is where you’re headed?
Look around the world right now – what we are seeing in Belarus – THIS is what lies in our future.
Black people: Are you prepared for THIS? Are you REALLY prepared? Because I’m going to go ahead and say not only are you NOT prepared for this, but if you can’t see that this is what’s necessary then you are naïve.
You are naïve to think that the protests that we have been doing are going to make the type of change that you’re talking about being successful at achieving.
No, white supremacy will not go that quietly. As we speak, they are making laws to further criminalize peaceful/non violent protests. As I write this, they are criminalizing our only way to stand up for ourselves.
Are you prepared to not go to work – not live your soft and cushy activist life screaming at everybody on the internet from the comfort of your couch while you watch Netflix? Yeah sure, you might be out in the streets – so you think you can take it, but what lies ahead is nothing that any of us – even you – are prepared for.
Honestly, you need to stand down and get a clue about the long game that is before us now.
Is it soooo hard to just be on the same page for once? This is how we got Trump in the first place. Why? Because the GOP execute better strategy then us EVERY TIME.
It is the ego, narcissism, inability to realize the value of the long game in tandem w/pushing for sweeping change and the willful ignorance of this necessity that got us here.
It is the lack of not seeing everyone who doesn’t do/act or agree w your politics 100% as worth it from those who lead anti-oppression movements that are the catalyst for bad decision making and agendas that lack strategy and result in more of the same garbage results.
Sure, we might get some legislation here or policy passed there but we need to put this in better perspective: It’s taken us 400+ years to get where we are and they’re STILL killing us w/impunity.
Why am I so salty?
Because it is not even 8 a.m. and I have already been called a neo-liberal and traitor by a Black transwoman on social media all because I would not publicly bash Kamala Harris – another Black woman. My integrity and commitment to Black lives questioned all before my first cup of coffee?!
Y’all, THIS IS INSANITY!
I’ll be the first to admit – that I am not ready to go to DC w/a pitchfork and a noose to tear down this system, but I will say that anyone who is trying to amplify/promote anti democratic messaging/ticket this late in the game I am going to start calling “ProTrumpers.”
Because underneath it all, despite them not saying it out loud, this is absolutely what is being implied and you should know.
You should know that trying to do this now, this late in the game is the perfect strategy for Trump to win, again.
And if you say you’re not proTrump then what else could you be? Pro against the system?
Perspective: Unless you have a good strategy to get the desired result of busting the system and getting a 3rd party contender in less then 100 days, then there is no room for your protest in this election cycle.
Because all I will hear, see and think is that you’re proTrump – so don’t be mad if I start calling you “Kanye.”
—jasper james
Flommist Jasper James is a multifaceted diversity-trained entrepreneur, multi-instrumentalist/ writer, event producer, and former Billboard Recording Artist. They are also the co-founder of Activism Articulated, and Women’s March Blac, an all-Black branch of Women’s March National Leadership. Jasper is on the ACLU Sacramento Chapter Board and the Sacramento Stonewall Democratic Club (PAC) and is an active member of the ACLU Speakers Bureau. They were also one of only five Black sitting female Presidents in the nation for the Women’s March Sacramento Chapter. Copyright © 2020 Jasper James. Images snagged via the interwebs, including.
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