[M]any leftist orgs create and foster the same type of anti Blackness that allow for the safety of Black participants . . . to constantly be put in sketchy situations. We are constantly placed in settings where we are demanded to interact in good faith and agree to empty, formless non apologies for incredibly racist words and (in)actions by white leftists – all the while being cast as “hostile”, “criminal”, and “threatening”, even as our access to platforms and ability to participate in organizing spaces are routinely stripped away through procedural death… The leftist bureaucratization that allows the same fucking discrimination we experience everywhere else to happen in supposedly radical spaces.
This is how the white left polices Black bodies while maintaining the optics of equitable, revolutionary praxis, simultaneously upholding white supremacy and the privileges it gives them.
Activist spaces are meant to be safe and they need to be safe for everyone, especially Black women and Black queer folks. . . We can't claim to support Black women and femmes in our rhetoric while not doing it in our actions. . .
Our spaces must be informed by a committed intersectional politic.
- The Left Has A Misogynior Problem - anti-Black ness At The Midwest Leftist Assembly (2019)
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/afrofuturist-abolitionists-of-the-americas-the-left-has-a-misogynoir-problem
