Why Do Black People Need to Value Black Lives Globally?

Because we’re the only ones who will

Birds of a feather, by Author. Adjusted in Canva by Author.

Black people’s treatment in Ukraine mirrors the racism we receive in Canada the US, in Britain, and everywhere around the world that white supremacy (the fraudulent idea that white people are superior to all others, but especially to Black people) has taken hold.

At this point, the only place we’d be treated as equals, I imagine, would be North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. You might remember the island as the place John Allan Chau an…eager American Christian wanted to visit to spread the “good word.”

The island is a protected refuge and off-limits to everyone. And I think that includes God. The Sentinelese killed John Allan Chau as he illegally landed his boat on their beach. His body has never been recovered.

Like John Allan Chau cut up and buried on the beach, Black people would get the same equal treatment. At least, we’ll have died at the hands of the only people on earth that may not be white supremacists.

The point is, we’ve got to think of Black Lives as a global movement and not as splintered fights in different regions because white supremacy is unified and global.

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