"Black Contributions to Political Social Vocabulary" Thu Oct-14-21 12:51 PM by Damali
since i saw folks in multiple places complain that Black people don't have the agency to add new terms to the lexicon of political discourse in the same way that the LGBTQ+ community (which has Black people in it!) has (heteronormativity etc etc).
So here's a list of terms I believe have come, fairly recently, from Black radical and political movements, thoughts and discourse..please add on if you know more or dispute any of these, if you like
"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment, we pretend to be what we are not, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time on Earth. " Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. "yes!!!! I used it too LOL " In response to Reply # 1
WE DID THAT
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"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time
3. "Is "womanist" too old?" In response to Reply # 0
That was my first introduction, as a deeply earnest white kid in the (ahem) late 90s, to the different, specific conversations folded into some of these terms.
Maybe I don't want to know if it's too old. But Alice Walker and Emilie Townes are a pretty good foundation.
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6. "great question...yeah its a little older than the last 5-10 years" In response to Reply # 3
"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time
5. "Black people add words to the dictionary too." In response to Reply # 4
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"I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time on Earth is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, each moment we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody what's us to say, then we are wasting our time
12. "It came from IPOC (which of course comes from POC)" In response to Reply # 7
indigenous and people of color. And then black folks said, if indigenous people are being separated because of the uniqueness of their situation, black folks also need to be separated because of the uniqueness of ours. And thus BIPOC was born.
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