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On one hand I could start with something about how ‘interesting it is’ that the series isn’t done yet and yet we’re back to (a Black) square one… that’s just in America.

Never forget that anti-Blackness is global and includes:

• Blak peoples in Australia, Torres Strait Islands and PNG who are simultaneously Blak and Indigenous.
• • Those on the continent of Africa in countries that have had Apartheid and other forms of segregation until very recently whose news we only hear when convenient.
• • Those in Asia who experienced a spike in racism (including removals from their homes and bans from entering public spaces) when it was said that Africans were bringing COVID in, despite those same Africans living in and adjacent to the epicentre of global COVID.
• • Those in Lebanon who experienced being the first to be let go (some at the roadside), not paid and trapped in the country, due to the recent explosion and the precarious nature of domestic work that so many Black women do in the Middle East.

On the other hand I could start with the internal structures of support Black people have had to build (often time in secret – lest our resistance be seen as a threat of vengeance) and that much of the cooing and dangling of all the books intended to be read above us like a cot’s mobile was again in part to placate the shame felt by others hearing the baby’s cries cos after a while when the world stops watching, it’s going to have to cry itself to sleep once more.

Well those are my two hands and neither is here to hold anyone else’s as they’re both full holding it all together while sewing a life of Black-happiness. 💬

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