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Ethnic Minorities and People of Color
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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.
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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks) was signed on this day in 1814 at Fort Jackson in Alabama. The treaty was agreed upon in the aftermath of the defeat of Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by U.S. forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
The treaty was the "largest single Indian cession of southern American land", according to historian Michael Rogin - around 23 million acres in Alabama and Georgia. The U.S. forces won with the battle with the help of allied Cherokee and Lower Creek forces friendly to the American side.
The terms of various treaties with the Creek nation would go on to be consistently violated by Americans colonizing the south.
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Those of you in the West™ when you started to become woke to the evils, how did that change your life in practice?
Do you ever dream of going back to your ethnic lands, or a metropolitan area with ideals you support? Or do you aspire to mould your current station into something more kind, communal and diverse against all the currents?
I'm always thinking about this. I think at most I would want to try and do what I can where I'm at right now. I was born and have lived most of my life in the US and even setting aside political motivations, I just never really felt like I'd adapt to my parents home country. I speak the language and I know enough of my family there to where it might be a bit easy, but life is just different over there. There's maybe one or two places where I might be able to settle over there, but IDK...
Coming back to politics though, I kind of feel a bit like VILenin. Much of the Dominican diaspora that I'm around is highly reactionary. Even those with relatively liberal leanings turn into Hitlerites, or better yet Trujilloites, at the mention of Haitians. That alone makes me feel like I couldn't really bear to spend much time there.
Honestly it made me withdraw from society as much as humanly possible. So much of the Chinese community where I grew up were either bitter KMT reactionaries still not over losing the war 80 years ago, wannabe whites, literal cops, or all three.
I’m done trying with people, I do well enough on my own and I have a job that gives me the perfect excuses for why I can’t go home for xyz.
I'm aware of how being here benefits me, and I don't let it become an identity.
Being Black in AmeriKKKa has led me to try to seek more melanated communities within the empire, but in my experience, even the most "radical" Black people I tend to encounter do not want to question their AmeriKKKan exceptionalist, imperialist brainworms.
Here I strive my hardest to be unapologetically Afrikan, and I don't buy into colonial beliefs around hair, skin, speech, the poor, or anything else. I like to question myself a lot, though. Though I've overcome so much internalized racism these past few years, I always wonder if anything else is lingering.
I dream of being able to live in South Africa one day, especially since I already have family there, and those family members are pretty much the only family members I keep some form of contact with. Right now, especially since I only recently started working, I don't have much to prepare for leaving, but it is a goal. Talking to my uncle a little more about the process tells me it might be pretty difficult, but I want to try. Not only do I have to prepare for handling South Africa's racial dynamics, but I have to navigate being there as an androgyne, and that can be rough, too.
every time i've "gone back to my ethnic lands" i've been subjected to intense queerphobia so fuck that