zuriya:

infijir:

southern-feminism:

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i’m FURIOUS, i’m fucking furious. anti-blackness and identity politics could not be realer. you do not under any circumstance take away from the struggles of another people to further your own. i cannot put into words how disgusting this fucking comparison is… basically what this insensitive, selfish hypocrite is trying to say is: your husband has killed more muslim girls than boko haram ever could, so let’s forget about the two hundred nigerian girls who are kidnapped and abused, both physically and psychologically, because my cause is more important than yours and my people are more important than yours.

fuck you. 

i just find it really rich that whenever issues of obama’s presidency are brought up, they’re done in a fashion that erases black suffering under obama altogether.

like its one thing to diminish the condition of these kidnapped girls (who by the way, the vast majority of them were not muslim, so the fact that he’s even making this an issue of muslim girls is opportunistic and conniving), but its a completely different ball game when you redirect the efforts of black (more specifically and importantly of course, nigerian) activists into an issue that primarily is broadcasted as a non-black issue (i’m guessing he’s referring to drones and military presence) which in itself is pretty sad given that most african nations have some form of physical military surveillance and several nations in east africa have experienced direct bombings from the obama camp.

there are tons of ways to call out hypocritical nature of the obama camp, but this wasn’t it. this is a complete failure. all this did was take the energy off the girls and off of nigeria and make it about something else. all you’re doing is reinforcing the idea that black african lives and conversations generating about black african lives isn’t important or worthy of acknowledgement.