“Just assimilate into the nation that has been historically raping you, historically lynching you, historically thieving EVERY LAST MOTE OF LABOR IN EVERY MUSCLE FIBER OF YOUR BODY, and destroying your history while they’re at it! That’s the only realistic move” cracker do you hear yourself

Shit like this is exactly why I believe we need our own nation, and would literally rather be liquidated than consider assimilation. This reductionist horseshit always gets trotted out whether we start talking the need for self-determination and sovereignty as a nation unto ourselves, or whether we’re talking just reparations to keep the median income of Black households from hitting zero within my fucking lifetime. Which need I remind you, is that way because of the systems that white supremacist capitalism have been erecting around us since the intentional failure of Reconstruction; thank you, Andrew fucking Johnson. Has been that way, since almost every ‘stronghold’ of accrued money in our community got burned by roving lynch mobs. But y’know, “just assimilate into the nation that’s killing you by the bucketful”.

Jesus fucking Christ. Like-- you really want me and my community to just. Throw our collective lot in with the settler-left of a nation that can’t even FULLY eradicate slavery from its Constitution, and you think your bullshit sophistry is the panacea for that? You think that’s what’s realistic? You think it’s realistic for any of us to trust a populace that can’t even be trusted to get in between a killer cop and their would-be victim?