Quote 19 Jan 333 notes
do not tell anyone, in any oppressed group, to be patient… patience is not a political strategy. it is a diversionary tactic, it is a patronizing recommendation made only by those that do not believe that oppression is killing us all.
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— Dr. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones gives 6 rules for allies (cross race/gender/sexuality/nationality/religion etc) in her keynote speech given 2/19/10 at a luncheon sponsored by Abriendo Brecha Vll Conference and The Seventeenth Annual Emerging Scholarship In Women’s and Gender Studies Conference UT Austin. (mentor, educator, powerful leader, theater artist and cultural worker working in the jazz aesthetic.) (via brownroundboi

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