You may think that you work hard for your possessions, but Black Lives Matter organizer Ashleigh Shackelford thinks otherwise. In fact, she doesn’t think you own them at all.
Nothing you have is yours. Let me be clear: Nothing you have is yours. Also, Let me be see through: Reparations are not donations, because we are not your charity, tax write off, or good deed for the day. You are living off of stolen resources, stolen land, exploited labor, appropriated culture and the murder of our people. Nothing you have is yours.
Reparations for us are not only necessary because we are economically harmed, exploited and stolen from — while the violence against us is never acknowledged — but because in order for us to create and move work for Black liberation, it requires resources and MONEY. We live in a white supremacist capitalist world, so ain’t no spinning webs of lies around “money isn’t the answer.” It is because money and exploitation and power are interconnected concepts of violence. Y’all spent hundreds of years selling, mutilating, raping and beating our bodies and labor but you think money doesn’t matter to our freedom and liberation? Cute. Write me a check for this shade because it comes with 400 years of trauma.
We need housing, transportation, food, clothes, free space for meetings and work space; we need laptops, cell phones, encrypted systems for communication, solar power and LAND. Stop playing. Y’all really thought pulling up to the protest in your Hyundai was gonna be enough? Nah. You have to give us everything we need and more, because even if it means you go without — it doesn’t matter because that’s how we been living for 400+ years. Reparations will never be negotiable. So if you’re not willing to talk money, you are not here for #BlackLivesMatter as a movement or for us as individuals.
According to Shackelford, merely supporting Black Lives Matter isn’t enough, wants all of these things for free — likely because no one supporting the organization is willing to work to do it themselves.
Source: Wear Your Voice Mag
Up yours I desire reparations then too, as my ancestors where killed and housed in consentration camps !! I look for nothing!! If you are so smart nad consider yourself inteelligent than why didn’t you better yourself and o to a Black college?? They are very highly ranked!! That would have made your ancestors proud!!
I would donate to get rid of the BLM group. Then everyone could be equal. This will never be the case though as long as there are BLM out there crying over spilled milk. It seems that there are consequences for everyone’s actions except for black people. It’s really getting old and pathetic and it’s all changing me. Sad!! Do they even realize that they are causing everything that they are whining about? Sad.