Shanna Sabio

Taking Montroae back to the scene of so much trauma... #LovecraftCountry

@mikiebarb @jeligon Another thing that was not stressed was police in schools - fueling the school to prison pipeline. I found this particular episode profoundly disappointing. John Oliver does a better job of explaining it. youtu.be/Wf4cea5oObY

On today's Daily: the logic of defunding and dismantling police departments -- and what it would actually look like in practice. @jeligon reports from Minneapolis: nytimes.com/2020/06/09/pod…

@BreeNewsome Anti-blackness happens all the time in the Black community and is common among descendants of the African Diaspora in the Caribbean and Latin America. It’s important to address it if we’re going to fight for liberation.

No one is immune to internalizing these racist constructs. They are pervasive in people’s understanding of how the white-black racial binary operates in the USA, which is why this keeps having to be said & we keep having to fight against historical erasure.

Black Americans are a distinct ethnic group & not solely a racial category. I’ll keep saying it for as long as folks engage in our ethnic & historical erasure, pretending we aren’t a distinct culture while continually appropriating & capitalizing off of our experience. 🤗💕

@KeeangaYamahtta Another banger - The crises in this country cannot be resolved one person at a time, and recipes for self-fulfillment cannot create the social forces necessary to transform neighborhoods.

😬😬😬bostonreview.net/race/keeanga-y…

@KeeangaYamahtta Favorite 3 - When unmoored from the institutions of power and class domination, racism becomes impossible to address, combat, and dismantle.

@KeeangaYamahtta Favorite 2 - Becoming normalizes power and the status quo while sending the message that the rest of us only need to find our place in the existing social hierarchy to be happy. 🔥🔥🔥

@KeeangaYamahtta Favorite 1 - “Her story is a celebration of personal fulfillment—the kind of self-involved, “live your truth”-inspired homilies that middle-class and rich women tell each other.”

"Butler seems to have seen the real future coming in a way few other writers did," says Gerry Caravan, an associate professor at Marquette University who is co-editing Butler's work for the Library of America. "It’s hard not to read the books and think ‘How did she know?’” FACTS

@UWIalumnionline @HilaryBeckles I’ve been following Sandy Darity and am an admirer of his work. I’m curious if there is a scholar pushing the case for reparations among Caribbean nations in the same way as he is. The caricom Twitter is dormant

Addressing Gender-Based Violence is essential to COVID-19 response and recovery bit.ly/3eP9Xfu #UWI #UWIGlobal

@blaisse5 @Billtheicon @wishbumpycoulda @_boxLogik_ @BlueberryJane @RepVernonJones That’s just the guilt talking. West Africa is implicated for reparations as well. I’m Caribbean American and I support #ADOS all the way. Whoever gets reparations first sets the precedent for others to follow.

@guang_lie @PeachesJenkins4 @Jon01864375 @_boxLogik_ @wishbumpycoulda @BlueberryJane European powers got in the slavery game early, used their colonies & most of them stayed in their nations while reaping the benefits of the remote labor. Also, many of them ended slavery before the US. The United States is a different beast. Every black body deserves reparations

@PeachesJenkins4 @Jon01864375 @_boxLogik_ @wishbumpycoulda @BlueberryJane Uh-oh 😂

@KolaBoof3 @FlakesTanzy @black_incubus @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations Me either. Today was rough- I have 19 and 22 year old sons. And so when folks say return to normal, I don’t understand. Nothing about this should be normalized. EVER.

@ShannaSabio @FlakesTanzy @black_incubus @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations Yep Shanna. I still haven't gotten over this murder in Georgia. I have 2 sons. I cried so much this week because I was simply......SCARED. That's all. Just scared as a Black mom of Black sons.

@FlakesTanzy @black_incubus @KolaBoof3 @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations And the MOs are all the same - use White Supremacy to keep us fighting for what we deserve, scraping to get by, and if that’s not enough, scared for our lives and the lives of our loved ones.

@black_incubus @KolaBoof3 @SandyDarity @ShannaSabio @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations It may be a dream but I really wish we all could join together and lend the legal support to one another's respective claims to get our justice. These bigots are long lost cousins, some not even friends and they are protecting each other just to keep us all under foot.

@FlakesTanzy @black_incubus @KolaBoof3 @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations Same

@princss6 @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel A plan to return using diplomatic channels. I’m skeptical about this one because of internalized white supremacy being exported all over the world with black faces. I saw some of it in Ghana among American expats. I do think that African countries are implicated in reparations.

@ShannaSabio @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel Repatriation?

@princss6 @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel True, especially for recent immigrants. I suspect those numbers start to meet after each generation born in the US. I stand in solidarity with #ados . The country attacks blackness with intent to destroy and I fear for myself and my sons.

@ShannaSabio @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel Yup but both groups doing better than ADOS

@princss6 @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel What do you think?

@ShannaSabio @CheeVision @LondonHypnotiq @voteweaponizer @blackoutkast @kzari_k @AdosSamson @marclamonthill @LucyBibb @AdosGrievances @TheBlackChannel So you think our odds are better if we hit different governmental entities at the same time? I don't think that's true.

@KolaBoof3 @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations I was adding too - maybe it came off different.

@ShannaSabio @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations I was ADDING to your comment about Blacks having built the major European cities. Blacks in Libya, Sudan, Egypt etc. are in no condition to "Start a movement" ...... For instance, when Arabs got done using slaves they killed them (no plantations) & got a new batch for next job.

@KolaBoof3 @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations Start a movement- they got oil money - get it

@ShannaSabio @SandyDarity @RocRob3 @ninaturner @BernieSanders @CariReparations And my people (from Sudan & other parts of North Africa) LITERALLY BUILT every Arab nation from Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Syria to Lebanon....with our bare hands. Arabs didn't build their cities.