You can hear straight from Ilhan’s mouth. It’s likely AOC will have similar reasoning:

“I need our best and brightest black researchers to get involved with the Human Genome Project so they can identify the genetic marker for gentrification.”

Peep the rest of the interview...it’s even worse. He basically views women as servants. He says that there are certain things women should be forced to do, and men have freedom to do what they want. This is absolutely disgusting.

lo and behold:

I couldn’t stop laughing this episode. It was excellent.

Folks already mentioned Afropunk, so that. And they’re in multiple cities now (BK, Atlanta, Paris)

Precisely!

Absolutely we need to listen. The fact that Diaz had the courage to make himself vulnerable— as both a notable figure and man of color—in a racist society that rarely views black men as victims and a patriarchal one that fails to give men space to express pain is remarkable.

I think there is another layer to this.

I didn’t see a comparison in the first place. I think there is indeed space to both critique somone and empathize with their victimization.

Riiight. Like I have a feeling many people didn’t actually read the story and are only relying on Jezebel’s summary.

Did you read his actual story? It puts the OP’s comments into context.

It’s confusing because the construct of race itself is not exact and stems from whatever characteristics racist Europeans decided would constitute each racial grouping. Further, race and identity are not concepts most people learn and critique unless they actively seek it out.

And a lot of black people in the US are just recognizing the differences between ethnicity and race.

Wait wut?

White people: stop being weird. This is weird.

That’s kinda tru. My Latino homie uses a darker emoji, because I think he sees himself more as a person of “color.”

Nah we got the best potato salad and mac and cheese.

oh this great. and so is the other one. they act like brother and sister.