Lots of screenshots so this will be 2 posts
This situation has literally nothing to do with us Somalis and yet black people who are too scared to say anything rude to Arabs and whites take out their frustrations on us and I’m done with it. I’ll give you guys some background and then I’ll get to the actual tweets abusing our community.
Anyways, it starts with the Sudanis (common theme?). Some Sudani girl was irritated about a video Palestinian reporter Motaz posted MONTHS ago.
She deleted the video she translated but here’s another copy of it:
This video starts a discourse about Palestinians and Arabs and antiblackness in the ME. Many black people who were rooting for Motaz and Palestinians get disappointed.
It all starts to blow up. Motaz apologizes:
The girl who blew the whole thing up rushes to do damage control:
It flips back on the Sudanis and they get frantic:
Black Palestinian girl calls out the weirdness:
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This situation has literally nothing to do with us Somalis and yet black people who are too scared to say anything rude to Arabs and whites take out their frustrations on us and I’m done with it. I’ll give you guys some background and then I’ll get to the actual tweets abusing our community.
Anyways, it starts with the Sudanis (common theme?). Some Sudani girl was irritated about a video Palestinian reporter Motaz posted MONTHS ago.
She deleted the video she translated but here’s another copy of it:
This video starts a discourse about Palestinians and Arabs and antiblackness in the ME. Many black people who were rooting for Motaz and Palestinians get disappointed.
It all starts to blow up. Motaz apologizes:
The girl who blew the whole thing up rushes to do damage control:
It flips back on the Sudanis and they get frantic:
Black Palestinian girl calls out the weirdness:
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