Official Title of this Community: Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
Why is the title different?
We like to have fun here.
What is this place? A safe space for underrepresented peoples and peoples of color to talk, chill, and vibe.
What are the basic rules of the community?
Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
No sectarianism: This is an identity channel not a channel for you all to complain about why XYZ isn't the "one true leftism". Take that to another place.
Stupidpol is not allowed. Stupidpol is class reductionist. We are an identity community. Thinking like stupidpol ignores the struggles of the oppressed, their voices, and their need for unique support. Nothing says oppression more than someone saying that the identity you have is "not real" and that if you only thought like them you'd see what your "real" identity is. Mods reserve the right to ban users and content who promote stupidpol, stupidpol memes, and other class reductionist thinking.
FAQ
I don't look XYZ and/or sometimes I can pass as white so I don't know if I can post here. Can I?
This place is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This includes those of mixed heritage and those who may be "white" but are of an ethnicity that is a minority in their area (i.e. Kurds, etc) If you've experienced oppression due to your identity that is not based on sexual / gender identification, you are welcome here.
Moreover, for our American audience, we have people from around the world who are "white" but are oppressed due to being a minority in their country. They are and should be welcomed here.
What can I post?
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Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on this day in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author. Hayford established a vocational school for young girls in Sierra Leone that emphasized racial and cultural pride.
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/hayford-adelaide-smith-casely-1868-1960/
I hope you nerds have a good month of June 
Remember no crackers
Happy Pride Month everyone! Can I just vent for a second and get something off my chest?
I’ve been struggling with this lately but honestly some of my recent encounters with people in the LGBTQ+ community have left a really bad taste in my mouth
Over the last few years I've seen so much blatant racism from some gay folks... like last Christmas Eve when I was visiting the US another Latin American literally told me to "go back to Mexico!"
I’ve also seen strangers online who are gay or trans just casually dropping the n word over and over it’s wild to me... like in what world do you think being part of one marginalized group gives you a free pass to be racist to others?
How am I supposed to build solidarity with someone who is just a rude racist asshole? You can't build solidarity when the other person doesn't even want it has zero class consciousness and is perfectly fine stepping on others
One thing to remember is that most issues and racism from the lgbt community comes from the white part of it. Building solidarity with poc lgbt folks is much easier as they suffer not only from queerphobia but also racism from their white counterparts and are much different. White people will be white no matter what other marginalized identity they may have. That's not to say that there's no shit from poc lgbt people but that goes for every group. And it all goes that if anybody is seen as a valid target for anything then nobody is safe. If they refuse to grow (speaking of individuals) then drop that specific person.