this is a lovely sentiment i find coming from many Europeans and liberal EuroAmericans,
infosec.exchange/@tinker/11376…
but it’s why am so weary of white liberals.
y’all really have not have The Real America™ burn down your little garden patch, throw out your groceries in a dumpster or literally barge into your church’s breakfast room all because you were Native, Black or Latino.
am not saying don’t do mutual aid.
am only saying your definition of healing scarcity doesn’t deal with racism.
Tinker ☀️ (@tinker@infosec.exchange)
A couple folks have brought up a great concern regarding "Free Fridges" and Post-Scarcity Mutual Aid Food Distribution: (I will not link the specific threads here as to discourage brigading).Infosec Exchange
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •i mean this sincerely:
unless you literally take Native, Black, Latino, Asian families by the hand to these fridges WE WONT USE THEM.
it’s due to getting shot dead for existing.
this is a MAGA’s dream target shooting practice if random BIPOC folks show up.
white people taking free anything without asking is “mutual aid”. if it involves us? it’s theft.
so get out of your white privilege comfort zone and take BIPOC to these fridges. not just invite, meet them there.
that’s true praxis.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •AND LET ME ADD EVEN MORE TO THIS
when it comes to “mainstream” spaces, events, actions, grants, jobs, stop telling BIPOC to just show up. stop with the “we are in this together” nonsense.
no, some animals are more equal than others.
so put your bodies on the line when telling BIPOC, this is for you too. be prepared to fight and get nasty for it to be real mutual aid.
as i have said before, jokingly, it’s not fascism if it doesn’t happen to white people, it’s only sparkling racism.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •LAST THING
i love Max Miller’s work. he says he’s not a historian, but i call bullshit. he not only flexes with his use of primary sources; he is amazing in using food history to make powerful political commentary by letting the facts speak for themselves.
watch this episode on school pizza. wait for when he drops the backstory about the Black Panthers school breakfast program and how Hoover went as far as poisoning their food to stop their #mutualAid program:
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Making School Cafeteria Pizza from the 1980s & '90s
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