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Black Lives Matter Goals and the Pervasiveness of Anti-Blackness
- 2. What are the goals of the Black Lives Matter Movement?
- 3. Black Lives Matter Goals In summary BLM strives to address ● State violence and police brutality against black bodies ● Poverty as structural violence ● A focus on the particular struggles black women have to deal with in addition to these state sanctioned killings ● Black mental health ● Violence done upon LGBTQIA black folx from a cis-hetero society both from intra community violence and state violence ● Undocumented black immigrants and the disportionate amount that they are targeted within the system ● Black folx living with disabilities and the persecution they face
- 4. “I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.” Coretta Scott King
- 5. Check-in
- 7. Anti-Blackness Blackness being antithetical to human.
- 8. “Anti-Blackness is not simply the racist actions of a white man with a grudge nor is it only a structure of racist discrimination—anti-blackness is the paradigm that binds blackness and death together so much so that one cannot think of one without the other,” - Nicholas Brady
- 9. Check-in
- 14. What Can We Do?
Editor's Notes
- Thank you all for being here to attend the Black Lives Mattter Conference and welcome to this presentation titled “The Pervasiveness of Anti-Blackness” My name is Keesha, I’m a junior here at Loyola, Psychology major, Q-Scholar at SDMA and pronouns are she/her/they/them. I’ll be addressing the erasure of blackness in certain issues such as deportation, muslim ban and environmental issues as well. We will be discussing why that is, how anti-blackness is the root behind this and how this becomes an obstruction to intersectionality which leads to erasure. Also y’all if I say any words that you want defined or explained please ask when I’m done at the slide and write it down or just raise your hand and I’ll stop an answer it. I want to make sure this is all accessible and understandable
- Small group: What are the goals of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Turn to the person next to you or make a group of 3 or 4 and write/discuss what yall think the goals of BLM are I’m going to first start off by asking you all “what are the goals of the black lives matter movement” and I’m asking this because honestly a lot of people still don’t know and have reduced its original goals. So what are the goals of the BLM Movement?
- When you go the actual blacklivesmatter online platform (click on link http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/) we see
- I bring up this quote as just a side note because I’m going to be mentioning the word “violence” a lot and you may have seen it mentioned several times in the BLM page. When we think of violence it’s reduced to mainly physical but there’s violence inflicted upon people in various ways, through various systems and structures. That is the systematic way that social structures or disadvantage individuals Food deserts are violence, not using someone’s correct pronouns are violence, under resourced schools and afterschool programs is violence. Etc..
- Do we need definitions or terms explained? Questions? The reason I showed y’all or reiterated the goals of the BLM movement was to show how much of the other issues this movement has tried to focus upon has been erased or just simply unaddressed. What this erasure does is ignore the many intersections black folk have and the vast inequities that we face, which is not only a disservice to those folk who hold those identities but for us as well to make black issues a singular thing. The co-funders of BLM held various identities and tried to make sure that their movement would be one that touched on issues and identities that are often left out in movements and therefore lead to only partial liberation because those who weren’t addressed before are still left waiting to be liberated as well. When we say Black Lives Matter we need to make sure that means ALL black lives-from the black muslims(american or non-american), to the undocumented black immigrants, to the afro-latina/afro-indigenous, to the black LGBTQ, to the black disabled. The caribbean, african, american--ALL of us. There can be no part of us that does not get uplifted within the movement.
- What do you all think anti-blackness is/how it shows up? So why don’t these issues get addressed? Part of it is just unawareness/ignorance which is fair. However, the other issue stems from anti-blackness. The anti-blackness within these various movements is an act of violence, it allows for the exclusion and discardment of black folx who posses these non-mainstream identities that are often left out of conversations and what this does is further push these people outside the margins.
- Imagine a venn diagram. You understand the composition of it right? To compare/contrast. What anti-blackness does is but blackness in one circle, human in the other and does not see the intersection of the two. The idea that black people can be seen as human is irreconcilable when someone holds this ideology Anti-blackness also describes the many forms and ways racism has affected black folk living in the US.
- Anti-blackness justifies black death Anti-blackness dehumanizes Anti-blackness puts blackness on a binary within the racial hierarchy where white supremacy can use it to fully function
- Do we need definitions or terms explained? Questions? The reason I showed y’all or reiterated the goals of the BLM movement was to show how much of the other issues this movement has tried to focus upon has been erased or just simply unaddressed. What this erasure does is ignore the many intersections black folk have and the vast inequities that we face, which is not only a disservice to those folk who hold those identities but for us as well to make black issues a singular thing. The co-funders of BLM held various identities and tried to make sure that their movement would be one that touched on issues and identities that are often left out in movements and therefore lead to only partial liberation because those who weren’t addressed before are still left waiting to be liberated as well. When we say Black Lives Matter we need to make sure that means ALL black lives-from the black muslims(american or non-american), to the undocumented black immigrants, to the afro-latina/afro-indigenous, to the black LGBTQ, to the black disabled. The caribbean, african, american--ALL of us. There can be no part of us that does not get uplifted within the movement.
- I’ll be looking at three major movements and how anti-blackness has permeated them: Muslim Ban, Day Without Immigrants and the Environmental Movement
- The Muslim Ban protests were in response to Trump’s travel ban which restricts travel from seven primarily muslim. In crowds of hundreds people gathered airports and ped out for those of our communities that were the most vulnerable at that pressing time.protested for hours until people that were detained that were coming from the banned countries were released. This was a great movement, it empowered communities that were otherwise apolitical and look However, there was some issues and one of those was the lack of visibility of black muslims. The seven countries Iran, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, and Yemen were countries that were already deemed as “dangerous”/possible of terrorist activity in the Obama administration. The countries that were mainly getting the press/having their people being the face of this movement were mainly Arab. Not the black muslims in Yemen who have millions dying of hunger in what the UN has called one of the worst humanitarian crises. Not only that but the muslim ban is said to disproportionately affect Sudan and Somalia, which are mainly black populated muslim countries At the root of this is lack of representation for Black-Americans in the muslim community based in anti-blackness, specifically arab muslims who largely are used as the face of muslims. The muslim community often erases and excludes black muslims in their conversations which is a great disservice to them seeing as they have been targeted by policies like these long before the Muslim Ban and yet everyone feels as if this is one of the biggest acts against them. What’s upsetting to think is that these hundreds of protesters wouldn’t have come out in large numbers as they had if this issue was more proximate to blackness rather than arab-ness which has sometimes been assimilated in a form of whiteness.
- Along with the No Ban there have been protests against deportations lead by ICE. These have been largely centered on Latinx communities, primarily Mexican. Black immigrants make up 7.6% of the U.S. population and 10.6% of all immigrant removals. In 2014 ICE deported over 1,000 African Immigrants. There has been an increase in Haitian deportations as well, over 4k Haitians are being held in immigration deportation offices. When we reduce immigration issues to only Latinx folk and make them highly visible over not only black immigrants but afro-latinx folk we leave their intersections to be lost within the cracks and lose them to these systems.
- Just a quick note on environmental issues and within certain contexts have been whitewashed. When we talk about environmental issues we have to talk about environmental racism as well. In Dumping Dixie Robert Bullard did case studies in mainly southern black neighborhoods and found that “he mentions a report that found"race proved to be the most sig.among variables in association w/ the location of hazardous waste facilities”. There’s a reason why Flint has dirty water, there’s a reason why black communities have unequal amounts of asthma and cancers in comparison to white communities, and there’s a reason why there’s an absence of blackness mentioned when it comes to the environment.
- Break off into small groups about solutions and then we’ll have larger share out sessions Talk more about anti-blackness within our lives and communities Critically analyze movements and whether they engage in anti-blackness Read, research, go on social media to learn more about anti-blackness Ask audience?