*The following is a collection of tweets about my random thoughts on Zimmerman's latest, the construction and deconstruction of black identity; white privilege, etc. I will expand on this (and other issues) in fuller, more nuanced detail in a later post(s).
So Zimmerman points gun at white woman & is promptly charged & arrested. He stalks, shoots & kills black teen and is acquitted...
It's just another manifestation of white privilege, something the American criminal justice system was/is tilted to uphold...
Laws in place to protect "them" from "us" because "we" don't really belong here -- Just guests in the American house we built for free...
From being slaves to 3/5's of a human being to being a "foreign born" 1st black President, whose "Americanness" is always questioned...
And then you have the nerve 2 ask a black American, "Why do u insist on being an 'AFRICAN-American'? Why can't u just be an 'AMERICAN'?"...
Because America's institutional & cultural racism forces that hyphenation, not black ppl themselves...
The hyphenation is a defense mechanism against Uncle Sam's racism and not a rejection of America herself...
When interracial couples (black & white) have kids, 9 times out of 10 they choose 2 raise those kids as BLACK boys & girls...
A mixed-race person could self-identify as white all day, but to the cop that is stopping and frisking them, they're just another nigga...
Another nigga that fits the profile...
That's why outlets like @BLACKGIRLSROCK are so necessary -- to combat the covert & overt negative messaging that black kids are fed everyday...
Messaging that tells them their likeness, their very humanity is somehow ugly, suspect & not worthy of dignity. The messaging is deliberate...
And no, it's not Illuminati. It's targeted marketing. And y'all niggas are buying what they're selling. Hook, line and sinker. Wake up!...
You're too distracted by what one "real" housewife said to the other, by the latest iPhone, by what Maino said to Trinidad James, etc...
Meanwhile we're being robbed in broad daylight of our money, history and dignity...
Martin & Malcolm didn't die for us to be living dead -- Zombies under the spell of "swag." Wake up.
*I realize that this is my 1st post in like, forever, but I am committing myself to vigorously writing and posting my thoughts on these issues (and others) in long-form formats via this blog, as opposed to speaking through the confines of 140-character snippets. Stay tuned.
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