Recent comments in /f/Newark

RainCloudz973 t1_j7ymz82 wrote

Reply to Students tell of Black-brown tensions at Newark school ahead of town hall meeting by madsheb

Very disturbing amount of ignorance in these comments. I’m assuming you guys are not teachers in Newark schools if you think that there aren’t blatant shows of anti-Blackness from Hispanic students to Black. And maybe in other schools Black students return that energy or initiate it, but I’d believe that’s less often. Hispanics have been habitually anti-Black for decades while living right next to us in urban communities. Anyone unaware of / denying this has either not lived through it, paid enough attention, or been in a position to observe it happening.

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RainCloudz973 t1_j7ymlno wrote

Reply to comment by Jimmy_kong253 in Students tell of Black-brown tensions at Newark school ahead of town hall meeting by madsheb

The convo you’re having here is very off to me. You’re not making a sharp class analysis if you’re denying how race and capitalism are intertwined. For some reason you seem to think pinning this “race obsession” on media brainwashing is a legitimate critique instead of a poor excuse to deny the reality of racial tension in America. But whether you acknowledge it or not, the fact of anti-Blackness and other racisms remain, as they are predicated by an ongoing history that pours into our (Black people, in this case) daily lives. This whole “Black Student Union causes more divide” thing is crap. What causes divide is the lived experience of anti-Blackness in modern society, and we Black people are obviously more than right for using solidarity as a way to preserve ourselves during it. If you want to deny us or any deeply marginalized group this right, then you are quite literally part of the problem, and history has proven that time after time.

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