Martin X @tillwefree Twitter profile

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Martin X

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2 years

For those who don't know, He had a sexual encounter, left, came back weeks later after wanting to confront the person about their gender identity to make sure he wasn't 'tricked', and beat them to death. Why are people celebrating this?

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Ex-Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute acquitted of mistaken-gender-identity murder of Tinder date

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4 years

@blackqueenofTU Twitter stay promoting unhealthy relationship dynamics calling it cute 🙊

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Martin X

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28 days

In my experience white people interpret neutrality or disinterest as hostility. If we are not constantly working to make them feel comfortable their fear of black people will move from latent to overt.

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28 days

I never thought it would happen to me but I live with a bunch of white people and they conspired with the landlord to get me out of the house because I keep to myself and apparently this creates tensions in the house

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Martin X

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2 years

There is a lot of talk about the overlap between incels and white supremacists, but the alt-right has a growing group that doesn’t get a lot of attention. Let me introduce you to Divestors, Black women who represent a gendered fascism. It's a wild thread. Buckle up🧵 (1/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

@WhurDeyDoDatAt It's so bad that you can't explain how he got off without directly citing homophobia and transphobia. Nobody deserves to die like that

Former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute found not guilty in beating death of Blacksburg...

CHRISTIANSBURG — Former Virginia Tech football player Isimemen Etute was found not guilty Friday in the beating death of Jerry Paul Smith following a three-day trial in Montgomery County Circuit

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Martin X

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2 years

Auntie Diaries ain't gonna push everyone farther to the left, but for the people who relate to Kendrick's experience, it absolutely will. For those who it doesn't, it's a conversation starter. That track is introducing something to mainstream hip hop that wasn't there before

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Martin X

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2 years

From everything we know about the Black Panther Party (BPP), they would have supported Trans rights, so if you can't understand from an LGBTQ perspective, you should understand it from a Black Liberation one. 🧵(1/16)

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Martin X

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2 years

Listen when black men say how their mental health is affected by seeing images of takeoff. Now imagine the impact of seeing George Floyd's death on social media every day for at least a year. How many times have you seen someone who looks just like you die?

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Martin X

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6 months

People are all about black boy joy until too many black men are in one spot. Then we gotta prove we are being productive. Wonder where that comes from

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7 months

Son: Dad, can we toss the pigskin today? Dad: No, son. Now put this suit on so we can stand in line and salute the camera.

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Martin X

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4 months

A woman asked why men don’t open up. Men share how the confinement to rigid masculinity is enforced by the women in their lives who disallow vulnerability. To which women respond to by…blaming men. Which is why we don’t open up. It’s full circle

Mahershalalhashbaz🧎‍♀️‍➡️

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4 months

She asked why men go through things alone & all the men quoted this with stories of how women failed them. Do you see how useless male friendships are?! Because why aren’t they talking about their friends?

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Martin X

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2 years

I'm ready to shake the table on a monday morning. Yes, Divestors are apart of the Alt-Right

Divestors are the Black Women in the Alt-Right you haven’t heard about

If you consider black women to be unwavering bastions of progressive thought, I’m gonna disrupt your programming. As inspiring as it can be…

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Martin X

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1 year

Why don't people read black men's writing on black masculinity? Its really strange How can you talk about black masculinity without citing black male authors? What happened to 'lived experience?'

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2 years

They told us educating people would cure racism. We still don't have power but we got a lot of anti racist workshops

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Martin X

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8 months

Start reading the comments and you begin to understand how social hostility against black men results in our death. We already know what happens when people feel this way about us with a gun in their hand

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BlackMen and positive image.

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Martin X

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2 years

Another 'therapist' talking down on their black male clientele for social media clout. An easy way to lose your license and I hope it happens quickly

La Lipstick Pusher 💄✨🇵🇦

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2 years

TikTok can actually be a gem. I love this! Open your fucking mouth! Men, come listen.

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Martin X

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4 years

@KLo_HMD11 @iHateBaconx Police brutality solves every problem here

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Martin X

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1 year

It's not black people constantly being killed by police, it's black men. Be specific. If we are going to create solutions, we need to start with the populations that are most impacted

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Martin X

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2 years

Negative takes on black men go viral daily. Must be the privilege

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Martin X

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4 months

Can we have an honest conversation about why this has gone viral? Without insulting anyone?

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why y’all never told me Simon had him a Black Queen ?! she was GORGEOUS too😍!!

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Martin X

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9 months

Calling your son a little misogynist is kinda wild. We gotta stop using the most extreme language to describe behavior, ESPECIALLY when it comes to black boys

Goddess of BLACK.

@xm_muva

9 months

I'm watching my baby boy turn into a little misogynist because of social standards he's learning in DAYCARE - already the "eww it's for girls" "mommy you're a girl you can't do that.." I had to ask his daycare teacher what is going on, she said the other kids.

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Martin X

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2 years

We didn't want him the first time

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2 years

71 percent don’t want Biden to run for reelection: poll

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Martin X

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2 years

The bar for being seen as an authority on black men is low. All you need is a negative experience

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1 year

@NikkiThaGodB1 She clearly going through something. We don’t have to keep laughing at her hard moments. Her past behavior had its consequences. Time to wish her well and move on

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Martin X

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2 years

Stacy Abrams pro police tweets are the reason why I never look for the political left to establish what is radical. Even the most progressive politician will prioritize being electable when it's time to act on radical positions they may hold in private

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Black men have a variety of ways to mark ourselves as 'safe' in order to survive. Mine used to be giving public service announcements around my 'progressive' values. Being considered 'good' is not what makes us deserving of humanity. Once I realized this, I stopped doing it

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Here are some of the terms that they use for black men: nakers, bullet bags, felony fairy, conquered male, apes, gorillas, dindu nuffins, Tyrone (calling all black men that), and ‘mamm’es', ‘pick me’s’, and ‘guard dogs’for the women that defend them. (14/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

Why are black men never the first choice for explaining their perspective? Why do opportunities for black women have to come through condemnation of black men?

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Wrote a column for @TheAtlantic on Kyrie Irving and the complicated relationship some Black men have in finding their identity

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2 years

The biggest problem with divestors is that they market racist ideas as black womens empowerment. Writers, bloggers, youtubers and influencers who are divestors plus people parroting divestor talking points for engagement stopping just short of being explicitly racist (16/25)

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@RenyTure The idea that women are innately non homophobic is comical to me

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Martin X

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1 year

Your not progressive if your advocacy always involves condemning black people. I don't care what those black people are doing.

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Martin X

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2 years

Divestors retain the set of far-right ideologies, believing that Black women are burdened by the black community, specifically black men, and should ‘divest’ as a form of ‘black women empowerment’ (5/25)

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2 years

Yall let BLM folks tell you that they started the movement against police brutality with a hashtag, but you mad about Chris Smalls, a whole union organizer, getting some press. Ok

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Martin X

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2 years

At some point we stopped talking about interventions for marginalization and moved to viewing identities as inherently progressive. Then when people with marginalized identities cause harm just like everyone else, we struggle to hold them accountable

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2 years

...and hypergamy through interracial relationships is the best form of social mobility. This is combined with their ideology that black men have abandoned and rejected them, which gives them justification for their anti-black misandry. (11/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

Some might say divestors are a brand of radical black feminism. I don’t know, but my inability to tell where one ends and the other begins speaks to how ingrained divestors have become. (25/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

Phrases like “black men are the weakest links” and “black women are tired of caping for black men” moved from simple statements of frustration to calling cards and viral trends on social media, often instigated by divestors (19/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

Where incels have created “an elaborate sociopolitical explanation for their sexual failures” with women, these women have also created an elaborate sociopolitical ideology, centering on the idea that black men are worthless,.. (10/25)

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Martin X

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4 years

@nocontextdrumar Title ideas: Non Afrikans not allowed here Do not bring your white wife

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Martin X

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4 months

All this man’s content is based in criticism of black people. It’s consistently condescending, reactive, and rarely affirmative to black people as a whole. Primarily for a white liberal audience. It’s the progressive version of the ‘pound cake’ speech over and over again

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Points were made 🤷🏾‍♂️ @keatingssixth

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2 years

They use terms and phrases like “blackistan” “struggle love” “burn the cape” “holding black men accountable” and use hashtags like #notyourmule #divest #burnthecape #divestordie . This is more than Black women venting, its next level (15/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

@JustChillBruh @RenyTure Right. It's incredibly unprofessional and a violation of the ethics codes therapist are taught to follow. This was made very clear when I got my degree in counseling

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Martin X

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2 years

What do yall celebrate about black men really? Cant dress up, can't make podcast, can't read too much (we reading the wrong books apparently), can't be too sensitive, can't be too hard, can't study other black men (black male studies), can't be too inclusive (might be gay), etc

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“The Alternative Right, commonly known as the "alt-right," is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness”and“social justice” to undermine white people"(4/25)

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They present themselves as a ‘self-help’ community, recruiting women who have often experienced real trauma, “encouraging Black women to decenter male attention, prioritize health and self-care, and to broaden one’s horizons.. (7/25)

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2 years

These takes often come with the glorification of white men as the alternative to black men, rather than directly stating white identity is under attack, divestors say they are being attacked for seeking to “date out” into white identity through hypergamy (20/25)

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Martin X

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1 year

Radfems also said black men were taking up ‘taking up too much space’ when we were protesting police brutality. I really want yall to see the connection here

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Martin X

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2 years

During the BLM movement, divestor rhetoric began to infiltrate progressive spaces, shifting the focus from the leadership of black women to divestor rhetoric of ‘women wearing capes for Black men’ (17/25)

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2 years

They go by a few names: Divestors, Black Women Going their own way (BWGTOW), Divested zealots, plus others. I won't be linking to people and accounts but they are not hard to find (6/25)

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2 years

Unlike other forms of fascism, they aren’t separate from the black community. They are more likely to operate under the guise of black feminism, whereas other women on the alt-right are specifically anti-feminist (24/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

Before I get into it, let me define what the alt-right is, just so we are clear. Here are a few definitions (2/25)

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Martin X

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“Alt-right adherents identify with a range of different ideologies, all of which center on white identity.” Anti-defamation League (3/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

They practice the same tactics as many fascist: making fake accounts antagonizing black women, creating youtubes, blogging on alt right sites, creating groups on reddit, making tik tocs, etc.,engaging in all forms of disinformation (23/25)

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Martin X

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3 years

@queersocialism White women feel like worship of black women excuses them from complicity in white supremacy. This goes unchecked and I'm tired.

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Martin X

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2 years

'Accountability' for black men can be introduced in any discipline to validate and justify disparaging comments made about them. A type of racism very unique to black men

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Martin X

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2 years

It sounds reasonable in the beginning, responding to the ways a particular community has been disaffected. Then it begins to devolve, syncing up with other alt right beliefs and behaviors. (13/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

They are really just sharing good old fascist talking points though. This is how the alt right pulls people in. (12/25)

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Martin X

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2 years

..through international travel and intentionally hypergamous relationships — often leading to the promotion of interracial relationships as a form of hypergamy."(8/25)

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Martin X

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9 months

When black men were going viral for being killed by the police, black twitter was going viral for talking about how terrible black men are. There is always a deradicalizing take with at least 50k likes every time we get riled up. And specific accounts that do it

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fully convinced “black twitter” is counterinsurgency or at least filled with counterinsurgents 😭

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2 years

I can list examples for days, but you can see it where advocacy for black men is combined with a general disdain for them. It starts to flow into divestor ideology (18/25)

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..or attempting to convince people that their fascism is reactionary, because ‘Black men hate black women’. (22/25)

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Diverstors will continually create points of antagonism in discourse, taking any instance of violence by black men, or a viral interracial couple (BW and WM) as encouragement for black women to “go their own way”,.. (21/25)

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2 years

Doesn’t sound that bad, but here is where the fascism and femcel parts kick in (9/25)

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Martin X

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1 year

Damn this made me tear up🔥✊🏿

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this is why young Black teachers are important 👏🏽

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@N_isAking Nah society's attitudes and justification of their death due to supposed 'not telling people they are trans' is.

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Martin X

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1 year

Are we going after everybody pushing white supremacist talking points or is it just Kanye cuz I got a couple of venn diagrams I been waiting to pull out

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Martin X

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3 months

People constantly say this about black men. The idea that black men “want to be white men” is an idea that’s a least a century old. Then they roll this talking point out every year about voting despite all evidence indicating otherwise

MTG - Mistress of the Trailer Park!

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The point we aren't saying out loud but he did.

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2 years

@TracyYOliver @airforcehan19 @MBEmpower @malcolmdlee Yes, people have had negative experiences, but when those negative experiences are presented as a baseline for visual representation, particularly for Black men, it's a problem. Black men are tired of constantly being presented as what people fear the most about us

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@bfromthesea Folks in the comments are trying to avoid the reality that they likely pressure partners into sex by talking about the responsibility of their partner to “speak up” if they don’t like it.

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Martin X

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2 years

Pro tip: When men are talking about their difficulties with emotional support it's not the time to talk about patriarchy. The same way a conversation about wealth distribution is not going to help someone asking for money.

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Martin X

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2 years

This is what makes online discourse and echo chambers so dangerous. Despite numerous mental health professionals citing which ethical codes were broken and her job releasing a statement, people still lean into seeing her as a martyr because they share her views on Black men

Latasha’s RENAISSANCE ✨✨

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2 years

If my Black therapist was literally taken away from me at this point in my journey I would simply fall apart. I cannot believe the internet did this. It’s one of the most vile things I’ve ever seen. So sorry to her and her clients.

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The #BLM organization has consistently tried to scapegoat its failures on a variety of organizations, systems, and people. The reality is that it is a failed project, which never lived up to the movement it was inspired from. (1/4)

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When black men and boys are seen as primary victims, gender is often removed from the analysis. During the blm movement "Black men" would be reframed as "Black people", when discussing police violence

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Martin X

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The BPP was the most “influential revolutionary organization” in the United States when it was active according to renowned sociologist George Katsiaficas. It's a reason why they remain the standard over 50 years later (2/16)

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Martin X

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2 years

Aries Spears marketing himself to the manosphere is the part people are missing. This rant isn't accidental

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Comedian Aries Spears responds to the backlash he is receiving after mocking Lizzo’s weight and looks

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Black male studies been talking about black male victims of sexual violence for years only to be harassed and get death threats. Now folks saying the black community too homophobic to care about victims of sexual violence. This is why I constantly critique liberalism

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Martin X

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2 years

The media showed us black men being killed for 10 years straight. Now all I wanna see is brothas laughing and enjoying life.

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Martin X

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6 months

The idea that male trauma is so simple that it can be understood through a few core tenets of radical feminism is insulting. People will discard years of psychological and public health learnings about trauma to quote bell hooks as an authority. This overextension is harmful

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Martin X

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2 years

Being black is casually having stuff like this come across your timeline and having to continue your day like nothing happened

AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

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On this day in 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire. 21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape. A THREAD.

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Terms such as "power" “Revolution” and “Power to the people” were not often made without some reference to the Panthers, as they were vanguard for analyses on oppression (3/16)

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If you think the Black Panthers would not have supported Trans rights, I would say you don't know the BPP, and that you might not be as serious about Black Liberation as you think you are (16/16)

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Martin X

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Feminism continually imagines men as agents of their own victimization. The whole conversation is directed towards men rather than simply naming and condemning the woman as a predator. Introducing patriarchy allows for the implication that men create the violence they receive

Goddess of BLACK.

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No one sees boys as victims because men are taught that owning women (no matter their age) makes them a man. Did you hear what he said "an older woman was into me" he couldn't see himself as the victim he was. Toxic masculinity&the patriarchy harms boys& protects female predators

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I have to continually argue against the societal framing of black men's mental health. It continues racial tropes about black men under the guise of help. Let me break it down if you haven’t already noticed (1/10)

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@ItsDanaWhite This just isn't true. I haven't seen many attempts in the past 10 years to engage black men that aren't condescending like this. Brothers show up when they are valued.

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The “black men are gonna vote republican” trope is used to rally the democratic vote. They know people will be rallied by the idea the idea that they have to overcompensate for black men. Doesn’t matter how black men actually vote. Politics need a black boogeyman to be effective

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"...homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion." "We must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for all oppressed people." This didn't come in a vacuum. (10/16)

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The coalitions that the panthers built were based on “chains of equivalence”, which was the concept of fighting a common cause with a common opponent. (4/16)

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@GoddessCru This is a derivative of 'we was kangz' where white people would openly mock how we spoke to each other and sought out our history. They still say it on alt right and neo nazi message boards. This ain't it.

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