I really think we need replace “people who look like me” politics with “people who are structurally positioned like me”. “Looks like me” alone obscures way too much about class, as well as access to opportunities and resources.
Emma Dabiri
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00:00- To see a young black Irish man with a Yoruba name speaking in Irish about the Black Panthers and the revolutionary power of solidarity and coalition is ONE OF THE BEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN 😍 follow @Taiwo_Oifigiuil 🖤
- There are many individuals who might be perceived as belonging to “oppressed minorities” in the Global North, who are in-fact members of the rapacious, extractive elite classes of the Global South countries they come from.
- Some of you legit don’t realise that Ireland is NOT a part of Britain
- Townley Grammar School has “abandoned “racist” hairstyle-related punishments, allowing girls to dye their hair a riot of colours from silver to purple.” “After reading...Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri” Mr Deehan the head teacher “had an epiphany” bit.ly/2E4sdQx
- Growing up and literally NEVER hearing any other black people who sounded like me, this is too joyous 🤣
- Race discourse in Ireland really needs to move beyond black people having to convince people racism actually exists & the media asking us to recount every single fucking racist exchange we've ever had (take my word for it, its uncountable). Lets talk about what happens next...
- Really sick of hearing descriptions of black people who ‘broke barriers’, like the ‘barriers’ are just some naturally occurring phenomena out there in the world, rather than carefully constructed tools of white supremacy.
- I don’t know who needs to hear this but the revolution will not be “diversity in advertising campaigns”
- We’re being manipulated to think migrants are a threat in order to justify coming out of the ECHR - but this would leave us ALL vulnerable and without protection. And while the targeting and scapegoating STARTS with the most vulnerable it doesn’t end there!!! #bbcqtEmma Dabiri on Suella Braverman 🗣️‘ We need to be extremely vigilant , we’re being manipulated to think migrants are a threat. Coming out of the ECHR. It’s starts with the most vulnerable. Then they would erode ALL our rights, unless you are part of the ruling class” 👏🏼 #BBCQT
00:00 - Barbara Beese and son Darcus Beese marching in support of the Bengali community Bethnal Green in the 1970s #SmallAxe
- People will make assumptions about your motivations based on their own lack of integrity
