A POC (people of color) coalition is not the same as a BIPOC (Black-indigenous-people of color) coalition. The conflation of the two flattens so many issues and conversations that we need to have. One coalition has a majority of the population.
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If there is understanding of how systems of anti-Blackness, colonialism, xenophobia, and imperialism all work together to uphold white supremacy and other systems of oppression, how can the coalition not look like *all* the people directly harmed by the totality of these forces?
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The irony of it all has been that white people have found deep meaning and value in the spaces I've been invited to/created where the room is designed to center a more authentic BIPOC coalition, and not one that is centering a white + non-white coalition.
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It is critical to understand the white vs black dichotomy as foundational to the way the US operates. And the future of anti-racism work & anti-genocide work - my mission for the last 8 years - is to break down the discussion to what happens across and inside the BIPOC space.
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Having Black, indigenous, people of color community members (people from BIPOC communities) in a space together does not automatically form a coalition. The organic nature of those coalitions can and has been tested and broken in strategic ways for centuries.
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Any group you can name among the BIPOC space has specific ills plaguing the formation of a "natural" coalition. Whether the model minority myth, the caste system, inter-ethnic war, sectarianism, heteropatriarchy, respectability politics, etc. survival/dominance patterns show up.
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We all deserve the honest, complex, humble, powerful, and transformative work that comes with building a healthy, thriving, true BIPOC coalition. No shortcuts. No declarations about who we "should" be in solidarity with. Interpersonal, intra-community, cross-cultural work.
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