I do realize that, though I presume by saying “Muslim lives matter” she does also include Western ones. However, she was specifically addressing an American audience and an American civil rights movement. The fact that she is primarily concerned with speaking out on the issues in the Middle East (which are important!)…

My response was about how Black Lives matter in the global arena. I am 100% against the conflation of all lives & black lives rhetoric, so I am doubtful that my remark offered anything akin to #alllivesmatter.

I’m sorry that has to be the biggest pile of bullshit ever.

She’s making the same mistake of logic that pervades the entire conversation about BLM.

Dummy, the violence that is perpetrated against African Americans is a part of “global violence.” Amazing how you just dismissed the violence in North America isn’t a part of the world. The violence against black Americans is remarkable and saddening and has shaped the world significantly.

Riiiight...you know sooo much more than me about my country, how our government works, and the “privileges” of Black Americans, lol. Well, at least you’re entertaining.

Lol

I guess it’s the least they can do, since they took away our $20.

Okay, first, breathe. Second, she’s literally calling people out for staying in their lane and not talking about Muslim lives when they don’t know shit about them. So here you are defending her and saying it’s cool if she does shit that you don’t want American’s to do, “pop off about shit in other countries..”

Why do people who are not black Americans feel they get to frame what it is to be a black American? I support BLM, but as a white American, I would never claim to know how hard it is to speak out about (though I can certainly imagine that it isn’t). It’s probably even harder to be a Muslim in America right now, sure,…

It’s adorable how you, a foreigner, have no idea of the realities of Blackness in America. Black people here are not at all making any decisions to come to your country and do anything. The idea that Black people are “all equally American occupiers” is laughable to anyone who acknowledges our history and current…

I get it, but that’s why, as an adult, you say: “I’m not an authority on this so I’m not going to answer the question.”

I feel like MIA’s statement is just a subset of #alllivesmatter. At this point there are plenty of sources/statements out there about the movement that she could use to educate herself on why it’s called BLM and what they’re fighting for.

Apples and Oranges but: I just saw an analogy about how imagine a kid in Nigeria is reading about gun violence in America and he decides he will grow up, go to school, and start a non-profit in America to solve gun violence because it has such a seemingly simple fix. He would not understand the complexities and…

Is she organizing something? Even starting a hashtag campaign? ‘Cuz all I see her doing is the usual complaining and throwing Black people under the bus for speaking up for ourselves and lamenting that her group isn’t as visible, as if we have something to do with that. Again, no one is stopping her or any prominent…

Then those concerned should OPEN UP THEIR MOUTHS AND SAY SOMETHING. No one is stopping them.

What is particularly odd to me is that this attitude is really different from what happened during the wave of radical identity politics in the 60s and 70s. The prominent response to African American civil rights movements from other groups was not “why aren’t they talking about us too?” but “cool, now we need to take…

Non-black POC need to stop expecting black Americans to stand up for their plights and causes when they never show their fucking faces when something is going on for us. Nor do they combat anti-black American biases within their own communities.

I would like for people, esp. other people of color, to stop acting as if black people are in this privileged position where everybody takes our concerns more seriously than they take the concerns of other marginalized groups.

So, more of the usual from non-Black POC : Somehow blaming us for being a hypervisible minority and acting like we are the ones that have any kind of control over their visibility and issues. (While of course remaining silent on the subject of the rampant anti-Black racism within their own group. Of course.)