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Skinfolk Ain’t Always Kinfolk
Some Black People Don’t Want to Claim their Blackness
As we all suffer under the Trump regime, the issue of Black contributions towards this regime become more and more problematic.
Candace Owens. Brandom Tatum. Stephen A. Smith Raven Symone.
These indivisuals and many others have abandoned the Black community.
As Black people are hung across in the country, particularly in the South, these Black people side with the authorities when they claim the hangings were “suicides.”
These people trash talk and defame some of our prominent Black leaders — Harriet Tubman. Fredrick Douglass. Rosa Parks. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Malcolm X. The Obamas.
They denigrate the Black community, agreeing with white conservative pundits that Black people are “violent,” “thugs,” “criminals,
and “overly sexual.” They call us “apes” and “monkeys” Black women are labeled “single mothers,” “grifting the “system.” Black men are called “absentee fathers,” “gang bangers,” and “ lazy.” Black Republicans cosign these terms and turn a blind eye when Black people are gunned down by the police and targeted by ICE agents.
The world does not revolve around white people. However, they’re access to resources and proximity to wealth give them huge…
