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because its bad enough that people are not taught our history within islam

its bad enough people don’t take our scholars seriously 

or better yet don’t even know who they are half the time

its bad enough whenever we attempt to fuse culture and religious practice to shape our own identities we are committing innovation or bastardizing islam {Despite the fact that many muslim traditions are not sociologically relevant to those of us not living in the arab and desi world} 

its bad enough the ivory town of islamic studies is narrowly focused on the existence of non-black Muslims 

its bad enough that when some of us attempt to exist in muslim spaces we are either ignored, triple checked to make sure we really, in fact, are muslim

or we are treated like rare specimens behind glass at the Smithsonian, right up there next to extinct wolly mammoths, tusks and all

its bad enough we’re treated as if we don’t know anything about our faith

its bad enough when we attempt to use islam for political purposes we are labeled as being traitors and diving the ummah

yet i haven’t seen most of y’all banging down the muslim brotherhood’s doorstep or any other political group that caters to the advancement of non-black muslims

its bad enough when muslim umbrella organizations exist in america, black and african diasporic muslims are often the last ones seen holding serious leadership positions

lets not forget how our issues are often left out of those grand sweeping political agendas

as much as i care about syria and palestine

when was the last time i could go on those umbrella org websites and read about 

Somalia 

Sudan 

the struggle many urban african american muslims have accessing healthy fresh food in food deserts

so we’re supposed to put up with your ignorance when it comes to our existence, your ignorance of us all together, and you’re anti-blackness, all to visibly exist within a global community

naw son. it aint even like that

cause Allah can be the main one without having to deal with anybody’s anti-black foolishness

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fool not only was that like….idk…three years ago

that entire post was extremely fucking condescending 

i am so sick of non-black muslims acting as if Black folk {muslim or not} know absolutely nothing about islam at all 

and talk down to us as we are fucking 17 months old 

here’s food for thought, black artists know about things well enough to bend and twist them for artistic purposes

i know, for all you anti-black kool aid sippers thats just really hard to understand

i mean, god, the thought of black people understanding something and it wasn’t at the end of a freedom riders/lean on me/the blindside type of movie

we actually arrived at a conclusion on our own

*GASP*

hard to believe

shocking aint it?

you can disagree with that method, which is valid

but don’t talk to us like we are fucking five weeks and we don’t know what we are saying or doing

God. do some of you think about the anti-blackness you unwillingly buy into when you reblog shit?

guess not!

UEFA: “They’re not making monkey noises, they’re saying ‘Boo-urns.’”

- a tweet from Unknown regarding UEFA’s response to the racist chanting directed at black players of the Dutch football team.  UEFA have said they will not investigate the matter.

To much of the press, an expression of shock and disappointment emerged with an apparent realisation that institutional racism had not been eradicated over the decade since the Macpherson Report.

I never would have guessed the police were still racist.  Even after being repeatedly pulled over for “random” checks over the years.

About a year after the anti-NF riot, a group of young Asians met in a pub to form the Indian Progressive Youth Association. Why did men and women whose origins lay in Pakistan or Bangladesh call themselves Indian? In large part it was an acknowledgement of their debt to the Indian Workers Association. The IWA had originally been formed in Coventry in 1938 to agitate for Indian independence. It had been wound down after the demise of the Raj, but in the late 1950s it was reformed to give a voice to the new wave of immigrants from the subcontinent. The IWA organized both as a trade union, in factories, on the buses and in hospitals, and as an anti-racist campaigning organization within Asian communities. It had close links to the labour movement in Britain and to the Communist Party of India, and its members invariably supported any action that local trade unions were taking because, as the author and playwright Dilip Hiro put it, ‘they believed that the economic lot of Indian workers was intimately intertwined with that of British workers.’ The IWA was, in fact, often forced to organize industrial action itself, usually to the consternation of mainstream trade unions. In May 1965 it led the first significant postwar ‘immigrant strike’ at Red Scar Mill in Preston, Lancashire, involving Indian, Pakistani and African-Caribbean workers. Over the next decade, the IWA was involved in dozens of industrial disputes, trying to roll back the impact of the first major postwar recession.

Brilliant article.  Muslims in Britain need to read this and understand their heritage.  Your parents were involved in direct action, forming unions and fighting oppression.  They looked beyond the bullshit of sectarianism and understood their common enemy.  They joined with other oppressed people and got to work. 

Think on it.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

daniellemertina:

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lilacskin:

Finally there’s a gif for this.

As Bobby Seale said “No more verbal sincerity … We learn from the past” … 

He was so aware… and fine. Gosh.

Yes lawd yes. How many times do we have to repeat ourselves and get ignored before we just start swinging?

(via doyayoda)