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

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

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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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.
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.
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.
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 don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?

This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.

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Anything you think is relevant to the mission of this community. Things will evolve over time.
Topics and things relevant to EM and POC.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5450922

While Joe Biden spoke during the opening night at the convention a group of delegates who want to end the Israeli genocide managed to sneak in a banner which read, “Stop Arming Israel .” One delegate felt compelled to hit one of the protesters on the head with a sign. Others moved to cover up the banner and then began shouting, “We love Joe!” Nadia Ahmad is the Florida delegate who was struck on the head. “They’re up there talking about fascism and like hitting me on the head with ‘I love Joe’ signs. That’s not a good look,” she said in what is perhaps the biggest understatement of the convention.

Let me just say how much it fuckin sickens me that the community has gone from "Not Like Us" to falling in around Kamala like she's not the same Cop City-repping, 1033-funding, genocide-collaborating ghoul that Genocide Joe is, just with a misleader's coat of paint.

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

I was think about this today. It's so frustrating that so many of our people want a black face at the head of the empire. They don't see anything wrong with the empire, it's just not black enough. I hate it so much. It's really frustrating seeing black people just so very much cheer for the conditions that will most certainly apply to us once they run out of other brown people. Funny fact about a bombs and cages, they're never built for just one group.

I think it's just deeply terrifying that black liberals so willing identifying with the all the shit we supposedly hate but its cool when a Kamala does it. The total political capture DNC of black voters is terrible (and I don't mean that in the sort of Black conservative way), it's just a shame that KHive is just Blue Maga with braids.

Black faces in high places will not save us man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Black faces in high places will not save us man.

Not all skinfolk is kinfolk; and I fear it's going to be a long couple decades of having to learn that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You'd think people would learn after Obama. The guy did so much to uphold white supremacy he outdid Bush. Millions of dollars siphoned away from black working class families into the pockets of rich white men because of the housing crash.

I'm not black, so I can only speculate from the outside. It's just bizarre to me as a different minority group to see people not put two and two together. I guess I can't be surprised given how treat-brained PMCs exist within my own ethnic group.