Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

mekka okereke :verified:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109789295728917242

Feb 1.

We even have quote posts this year!

This Statue of Liberty thread is especially relevant this year, when everyone is trying to pretend that US fascism against immigrants is something new, by ignoring the ongoing US fascism against Black people. People love to erase or ignore Black suffering. But we're still here, and we stubbornly refuse to be erased or ignored.

Read the whole thread if you haven't read it before.

Kurt Nelson

@mekkaokereke going to it for the first time next week, in the crown too. If the Cheeto doesn't wreck our national parks even more by then.

WinterKnight :donor:

@mekkaokereke thanks for doing another round of these posts Mekka. I’ve learned a lot every year from them.

Philipp Alexander Vollmer

@mekkaokereke

About fascism in the US, look at the Lincoln Memorial. It was built in the 1920s, does anybody find it normal that the front shows the symbol of the Italian Squadristi, the fascist black shirts who became relevant at the same time, making Mussolini famous around the world. The Lincoln Memorial is dogwhistling US fascism to the fascist around the world. And all those influential groups shielding Germany from US troops and war efforts until Pearl Harbor. Fascism is part of the US political fabric, interwoven strong and enduring.

And it wasn't something new, it was and is the condensation of white supremacy, racism, religious extremism, greed, envy and sexual deviance into one.

And it's hard to fight, because there isn't only a single reason behind it, there are thousands of reasons. And we can't address them all. And shunning no longer works. They are proud to be walking atrocities, to be despicable. They relish on that.

Osamagaza🇵🇸🍉

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