Black people: always used as positive or negative foils for non-black movements for justice (@AWeheliye writes about this in recently book).
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I keep going back to this idea, mostly because it discomforts me—I've too often compared x thing the oppression of black people.
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I think I've made a good attempt to stop, but it's so... tempting. I see it all the time.
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Black pain is so... available. That's disturbing. Why is black pain so available to the rest of us, who don't even feel it?
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We feel our own unique pain, but find it hard to even claim it without comparing it to black pain. Negatively. Or positively. Damn.
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I don't ask for your reading suggestions enough, and therefore wind up with books that are just so-so. What are you reading that's good?
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I'm currently re-reading Atilo Boron's Imperio Imperialismo pretty much as a promise to a friend. What should I read next?
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In case I haven't made it clear, go read Weheliye's Habeas Viscus. You'll find yourself reaching back for it all the time.
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