If you are a non-Black individual or even an organization that supported #BlackLivesMatter, maybe you put out an organizational statement, hired more Black folks, formed an entire DEI department, or even went to a march or two.
If you said #BlackLivesMatter but are not also for a free and liberated Palestine, you missed something, review the lesson. There is more for you to learn and study.
One of the fundamental lessons and principles that Black and Indigenous movement leaders have emphasized time and time again, over decades, over centuries, is that our liberation is interdependent and connected.
White colonial dominant culture will have you believing in competitive individualism when it is precisely that which tries to prevent us from making the connections.
Anti-Blackness is connected to
Anti-Indigeneity is
Climate disaster is
Model minority myth is
Land theft is
Anti-immigrant sentiment is
Ableist culture is
Colonialism is
Empire
We have an opportunity to end the cycle once and for all. To build on the infinite teachings of so many before us. To finally collectively shift our thinking, our awareness, our analysis. To shift and fundamentally change the way everything works. To change the world.
And we do that by understanding , truly understanding what is underlying all of our movements and struggles over centuries. No one is free until everyone is free.
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