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[–]knownasness 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

no. literally every time black people are in the spotlight for anything positive, a POC tries to piggy back off of it. it's so fucking annoying. it's like we can't be celebrated by others or celebrate amongst ourselves without someone latin or asian having a damn fit and saying "well, what about us?". we do not do this to anyone. we go to bat for literally everybody but when it's our turn, people just co-opt our movement[s] and complain about how they're always excluded. it's corny. it's even worse when white people do it because they have nothing to complain about. so tired of humanity man.

[–]just_lesbian_things 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

we go to bat for literally everybody

Do you?

I don't agree with people doing this:

someone latin or asian having a damn fit and saying "well, what about us?".

But have black communities done anything for "Latin" or "Asian" communities that wasn't by happenstance?

For one thing, I think the "Latin" and "Asian" community are far more diverse than the black community, especially the latter group, which encompasses several extremely different cultures, histories, and languages. I don't even think there's really all that much of a collective "Asian" community. North American society is trying to fit the idea of blackness and whiteness, the idea of "community", onto people who aren't part of this paradigm and it's unsurprisingly unsuccessful.

[–]knownasness 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

you aren't black, are you?

[–]just_lesbian_things 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope.