#antiblackness — Public Fediverse posts

"Freedom can be granted, but it remains a “legal fiction”. […] Rights cannot be bestowed upon those constructed as Slaves, non-Humans, or property, especially when such a status is the contingent basis of the worldview through which rights are given their coherence."
by Scott Campbell @susurros

“Peace, within an antiblack world, is a fallacy (much like freedom). The metaphysical infrastructure that supports the fiction of the white human is sustained by antiblack violence.”
by Calvin Warren, in Ontological Terror

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#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #liberation #israelPalestine #raceMaking

"Palestinians despise the courts. We hate the sight of a judge, knowing all too well that they are no different from the interrogator. We loathe the law and all it stands for in our context—a tool for oppression cloaked in legality. Even the lawyers, perhaps universally disliked, evoke our mistrust. But for us, the courts represent more than frustration; they are the place where our oppressive conditions are translated into legal language, where the weight of colonial domination is formalized with a veneer of legitimacy."
by Abdaljawad Omar, in “The ICC warrants: Palestinian skepticism and the glimpse of justice,” 2024, https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-icc-warrants-palestinian-skepticism-and-the-glimpse-of-justice/

cited in https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/

@palestine 🧶

#othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #antiBlackness #slavery #BlackMastodon #AfroPessimism #beliefs #institutionsDeceive #justice #judicialBias #legality #legitimacy #IHL #internationalLaw #law #OPT #WestBank #JewishSupremacy #Mondoweiss

https://archive.org/details/jazz-funeral-for-uncle-tom

A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by Harmony Holiday

Topics #artwriting, #prose, #poetry, #jazzfuneral, #jazzfunerals, #jazz, #Blackhistory, #musicalhistory, #historyofmusic, #ritual, #visualculture, #antiblackness, #culturalanalysis

Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom is exactly what it announces it is, a book as dynamic and eternal event wherein a feminine voice leads her band of improvisers in a procession of joyous interrogation and forgiveness. This ritural is simultaneously a purging of any cowardly impulses in the speaker and in the culture she addresses and speaks as, and a releasing or banishing of unfit archetypes, readying the landscape for fresh forces by torching the weakest links in the prevailing mythos.

https://archive.org/details/portugueseafrica

The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire by Norrie MacQueen

Topics
#Angola, #Mozambique, #GuineaBissau, #CaboVerde, #CapeVerde, #GuinéBissau, #SãoToméandPríncipe, #SãoToméePríncipe, #SãoTomé, #Príncipe, #portugal, #MozambicanWarofIndependence, #FrentedeLibertaçãodeMoçambique, #FRELIMO, #CarnationRevolution, #EstadoNovo, #fascism, #portuguesecolonialism, #colonialism, #imperialism, #AngolanWarofIndependence, #LutaArmadadeLibertaçãoNacional, #MPLA, #UNITA, #FNLA, #PeoplesMovementfortheLiberationofAngola, #MovimentoPopulardeLibertaçãodeAngola, #NationalFrontfortheLiberationofAngola, #FrenteNacionaldeLibertaçãodeAngola, #UniãoNacionalparaaIndependênciaTotaldeAngola, #NationalUnionfortheTotalIndependenceofAngola, #GuineaBissauWarofIndependence, #PAIGC, #AfricanPartyfortheIndependenceofGuineaandCapeVerde, #PartidoAfricanoparaaIndependênciadaGuinéeCaboVerde, #MovementfortheLiberationofSãoToméandPríncipe, #MovimentodeLibertaçãodeSãoToméePríncipe, #MLSTP, #anticolonialism, #guerrillawarfare, #genocide, #antiblackness, #Africa, #revolution, #controlledopposition, #war, #politicalpolice, #slavercolonialism, #slavercolonizers, #portugueseempire, #antiimperialism, #armedstruggle