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“How does one deconstruct life? Who would benefit from such an undertaking? The coffle approaches with its answers in tow.” – Frank B. Wilderson III

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“defund” is already a compromise. it is already a reform. it is laughable that this is even a discussion.

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To be clear: The goal is abolition. Not peace. Not reform. Not prosecution. Abolition. Everything must go.

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they are not mocking her about what she’s supporting. they are mocking her about being a fat black woman. the difference is very fucking important.

Northwest Cee

@CeeHawk

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If a large group of white guys are mocking you about a thing you’re supporting, you’re right. History proves it. You are not only correct, but they are going to use the pictures and videos of the event to show how correct you are for years and years.

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the spelling of “bourgeois” really be kicking my ass.

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The neutral ground is anti-black. The objective ground is anti-black. The value-free ground is anti-black. The empirical ground is anti-black. The scientific ground is anti-black. The medical ground is anti-black. The juridical ground is anti-black. The historical ground—

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"abolition is a synonym for the end of the world" – Saidiya Hartman

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…she’s right.

non aesthetic things

@PicturesFoIder

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Mia Khalifa thinks being in the army is worse than doing onlyfans 😭

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“forget how to negotiate… you are fighting a war”

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“Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and Cardi B”

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spiritual niggas be wanting to transcend everything but cisheteropatriarchy

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“to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave” – Assata Shakur

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The Legend of Korra is police propaganda.

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note that she didn’t even want to tell the doctors because she thought they, too, were the police.

Baller Alert 🚨

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Meg Thee Stallion confirms Tory Lanez shot her

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Which is why the abolition of police must include the abolition of whiteness.

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Y’all ever notice how in the absence of police the nearest white person will appoint themselves as law enforcement?

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“the therapeutic is necessary, but unless you can stop the source of violence, it’s irrelevant” – Joy James

justice

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3 years

frankly anyone saying “Black people do what you need to do to take care of yourself” is well-intentioned, but acting as though there is much that individual Black people can do to mitigate the physical & mental harm caused by the constant thread of state violence is silly

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“Love does not stop violence.” – Nikki Giovanni

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That lightskin rap nigga wants to be emotionally and intellectually coddled and it is neither Noname’s nor any other darkskin black woman’s job to do that labor for him.

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What C*le did was misogynoir. Plain and simple. If he really wanted to learn he would’ve reached out. His aim was to humiliate.

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“we shouldn’t presume that there is a desire for freedom” –Jared Sexton

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“The nation-state is becoming increasingly obsolete.” – Angela Y. Davis

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Somebody rob this nigga

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@Complex

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Source: JAY-Z believes Colin Kaepernick turned workout into publicity stunt.

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“The institutions that we’re fighting is not just the school, the police, the clinic, the jail, but it’s also the self, the subject.” – Fred Moten

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we cannot discourse ourselves into freedom.

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“women are in control of the machinery of war...and I want to ask you is this a cause for celebration?” – Angela Davis

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“I ain’t bout to be nonviolent, honey!” – Nina Simone

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19th century politics 🤝 19th century aesthetics

Morehouse College

@Morehouse

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We're proud to announce that @RalphLauren today expanded its partnership with Morehouse College and Spelman College, unveiling a limited-edition collection inspired by the schools’ rich heritage and esteemed traditions. Learn more:

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y’all give lightskin rappers so much when Flo Milli, Cupcakke, Dreezy, and Tierra Whack are right there...

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“white people are not simply “protected” by the police, they are—in their very corporeality—the police.” –Frank B. Wilderson III

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“The civil rights movement...is an American phrase which, upon examination, means nothing at all.” – James Baldwin

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“everything is unstable, including the very meaning of what it means to be free.” – Joy James

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Hortense Spillers on the distinction between body and flesh

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oh @Morehouse has lost its mind

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“I am attempting to acknowledge the ways in which we sometimes tend to rely on the ideologies we think we are opposing.”

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y’all will do and say anything to avoid a structural analysis of anti-blackness

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“bad n*ggers fail, good n*ggers prevail” — signed, the master

Aaron Maté

@aaronjmate

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Speaking at John Lewis' funeral, Bill Clinton disses civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture): "There were two or three years there where the movement went a little bit too far towards Stokely. But in the end, John Lewis prevailed."

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i don’t know of any other encampment in the country that has been broken up so swiftly and so violently than the one at Emory. APD does not give a single fuck.

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almost as if homosexuality continues to be the scapegoat for patriarchal violence because admitting the problem is really the latter would implicate cishet folks on both sides of the gender-line

Bravo Barbie 🍬💖

@AiokiNagato

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All these men who beat women are closeted and secretly hate women. I’m convinced.

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😭 im sorry but this is giving:

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i have, in real time, watched concerns for “safety” become the deciding factor as to whether students should escalate. “safety,” in the imperial core, is measured in chains and corpses. it should not be orienting any movement seeking to intervene in imperialist violence.

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To my new followers, here are a few texts I find foundational: Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon Black, White, and in Color - Hortense J. Spillers Scenes of Subjection - Saidiya Hartman Toward a Global Idea of Race - Denise Ferreira da Silva In the Wake - Christina Sharpe

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fat black women don’t have to be doing or supporting anything to receive this kind of vitriol. y’all are blatantly obscuring violence.

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“For black women, can there be an ethics of unforgiveness?” – Rizvana Bradley

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Obama: “I’d rather lose Black lives than white votes.”

The Hill

@thehill

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Obama: You lose people with "snappy" slogans like "defund the police"

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“Before abolitionism, there was revolutionary struggle.” – Joy James

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loving how bipartisan the anti-Blackness is 🥰

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this is literal eugenics

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us: “hey guys, maybe anti-blackness is the problem” y’all: “solve it rn or i don’t believe you”

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Why must the dead and dying defend themselves?

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The amount of Black death and dispossession between them. Why vote for a new master when we already have such dedicated overseers?

Madam Auntie VP Kamala Harris is THEE GOAT!

@flywithkamala

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This NEW Biden-Harris ad featuring 14 Black mayors from across the country is straight fire!! 🔥🔥🔥 #BlackLivesMatter #BidenHarris2020

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Half of Netflix is prison/police porn/propaganda

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“Those of us who have been ‘touched by the mother’ need acknowledge that her ability to provide care, food, and refuge often has placed her in great jeopardy and, above all, required her to give with no expectation of reciprocity or return.” – Saidiya Hartman

kirst 🧚🏻‍♀️

@boygeniuswift

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tabitha brown says lgbtq+ rights!!! 🥺

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many of you believe in a world before colonialism, which is also to say a colonialism that did not make the world. this, to us, is nonsense. there is no concept of “the world” or its history that has not been mediated by colonial violence.

INTERRACIAL SEX RACE TRAITOR

@ABOLISHGIRLBOSS

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"blackness" as the colonial concept we know is something relatively new in human history. Afropessimism argues that the history of the world is blackness. This is just metaphysical nonsense.

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I will be a philosophy PhD student at Emory University in the fall. :)

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or is it that “democracy,” “empire,” and “police state” were never mutually exclusive in the first instance?

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omg this was never a democracy it has been it is an empire and a police state!!!!

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philia and phobia; two sides of the same libidinal economy.

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Black queer community is so damn important

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The modern circus evolved from vaudeville—a French variety show whose popularity in the United States and Canada was due in large part to minstrelsy being its main attraction.

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Hortense Spillers on commemoration

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This always takes me out because how could she say some shit like that and then just end the lecture like “okay, thanks 😊”

tea: armchair era

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Good Morning:

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If you still don't think politics is parasitic upon Black death, I don't know what to tell you...

No Cop City

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Vultures...

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they did not express concern about being recorded. they expressed concern about being read as a “bitch.” if they were trying to set a boundary it was very clearly between themselves and queerness.

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@queersocialism

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even if you think they are doing too much—okay, fine, cool. but, what if a nigga just don’t like flowers? 😭 especially on behalf of a random stranger holding an iphone recording in ya face? is that so wrong? how is setting a boundary grounds for this anti-black moralism?

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“There is a point at which methods devour themselves.” – Frantz Fanon

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“academic abolitionism...has this abstract goal, and it’s tethered to freedom dreams. and so it’s pretty open ended...but I’m like, what’s the plan?...how long is this dreaming going to last?...I don’t trust dreams that don’t allow the possibility of nightmares.” – Joy James

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“Black people are political currency, not political subjects.” – Frank B. Wilderson III

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“The debate or controversy over black humanity is itself a form of necropolitics.” – Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

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all this rhetoric about being on the “right” side of history is far too optimistic. there is no guarantee that history will remember this. we have too much faith in memory and not enough knowledge of fascism. nothing is ineffaceable.

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“Where is that place where what should not ‘happen to nobody’ happens every day?” – Denise Ferreira da Silva

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“The plot of her undoing begins with the violence of reason.” – Saidiya Hartman

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Harm reduction is sending drones instead of troops.

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No, neither I nor Hartman can expand on this. It is neither metaphor nor hyperbole. Its unthinkability is something we must sit with.

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"abolition is a synonym for the end of the world" – Saidiya Hartman

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and ontologically speaking.

jehroda's witness • he/they 🍒🌸

@cherryroelle

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"is everything racist to yall" well yes, historically speaking

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Abolition now.

mixed-ish

@mixedishabc

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Choose to be a rainbow in a black and white world - even if it's a little harder! 💛🌈 #mixedish

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Long ago, Joy James documented the rise of “neoradicalism” as a kind of “‘loyal’ opposition to the state” — warning against the “hegemony of bourgeois intellectuals” and the “commodification of the ‘revolutionary’.” If only we had listened.

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An anti-fascist vote for Biden is in no way an affirmation of Neoliberal politics. In this sense, I agree with my brothers and sisters like Noam Chomsky, Angela Davis, Paul Street and Bob Avakian.

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“How does it feel to be a problem?” – W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903 “A feeling of inferiority? No, a feeling of not existing.” – Frantz Fanon, 1952

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It is also anti-black to presume the folks looting don’t have an analysis of capitalism—in its irreducible dependence on anti-blackness—and are thus doing so without intention.

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I go to Morehouse. Black male professors enable patriarchy and misogynoir all the time under the guise of nuance and rigorous scholarship. Black male students regularly come to their defense as if their life depends on it, too. The gaslighting of Black queer scholars is routine.

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Black joy.

I mean I guess this is a professioneal account

@Professioneal

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What's something that *feels* like Black liberation but actually isn't ?

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When BLM was prompted, Biden and Trump spent their time fighting over who was more pro-police, pro-law and order. Anti-Blackness is the only bipartisan issue on the ballot, Black life the only compromisable position.

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y’all don’t know what abolition without conditions means.

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“I think that professors are by and large categorically disqualified or unqualified to make pronouncements on resistance....What I have to offer is an analysis of the problem. And I don’t trust me as much as I trust Black people on the ground.” – Frank B. Wilderson III

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many seem to be confused. the united states and israel are the same. these are not institutions that just so happen to support genocide. these are genocidal institutions.

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Cannot stop losing my mind about the fact that all this is over some kids trying to stop an extremely well-documented campaign of mass murder and starvation against innocent civilians. How does anyone support what Israel is doing at this point?

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One would *think* Trump’s fascism would instigate open and sustained revolt on the part of those most concerned... not greater fidelity to the democratic institutions that elected him, not greater hostility toward the folks who did not and could not elect him on their own

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Saidiya Hartman on the limits of the human

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“In other words, they are in the position of believing in the power of the law to free them at the same time that they know that the law is precisely what has kept them enslaved.” – Christina Sharpe

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i guess it’s just a coincidence that this is happening in one of the blackest cities in america. nothing “paradigmatic” about that at all.

Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City

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why the need for an alternative? folks could literally just… not do gender reveals lol. is the baby not a baby if their gender is unspecified?

Afrodeity

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@escapebound What do u think the alternative could be? Like I'm genuinely confused about how a gender reveal is supposedly transphobic?

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I’m uninterested in celebrating a billionaire for giving away less than a hundredth of his wealth. I am thoroughly aware of the ways in which sentiment and generosity are bound up with subjection.

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Saidiya Hartman on how the experience of sexual violation for enslaved women and men is “more similar than different” and how gender disavows injury in both instances (1997: 101, 232):

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(no one, not even Beyoncé, can make the American flag and its colors look good)

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@tchaiko

Joy James: The Architects of Abolitionism

The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice's Carceral State Reading Group presents, "The Architects of Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and t...

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“The black subject reveals marxism’s inability to think white supremacy as the base and, in so doing, calls into question marxism’s claim to elaborate a comprehensive antagonism” – Frank B. Wilderson III

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the safety of “black and brown” students, in particular, is being invoked as an excuse not to escalate. but these students have never, and will never, be safe. it is not a question of safety for them, anymore than it is a question of safety for Sudan, Gaza, or the Congo

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Either one is pro-Black or pro-police.

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“We’re really never ever definitely empirical in anything that we say about anything. And so I’m not looking to be definitive or comprehensive ... I’m trying to clarify a concept.” – Hortense J. Spillers

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