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 BLACK OUT! At Occupy Philadelphia

We had a Black Out! at Occupy Philadelphia. Why?

Saturday,  two sisters were called N*****s by two of the volunteers at Occupy Philadelphia at the cell-phone charging stations.  They were also told to go back to Africa, and that each white man should own a slave. When the sista’s called security, security asked them to leave the premises because they thought they were apart of the UHURU movement.  Even if they were a part of that movement, they should not have been asked to leave without any mention of their verbal and spirtual abuse.

So a small collective formed a drummer’s circle and started a rally, only to be met with on-lookers who didn’t understand why there was a Pan-African flag at an “American” event. We were called racist.  People kept coming to us to tell us that all of us are people and that race is behind us!

Bullshit.

When we wanted to address the people at the people’s assembly, we had to beg to get a spot on the program. They kept asking us if we were going to be violent.  We eventually told the gate-keepers that we were going to be given the mic, or we were going to take the mic. We eventually got our spot.

As the sister was talking about her experience, there were some members in support - but many of the people were asking us to hurry up and finish, one guy using signals to get us to hurry up.

We spoke out about RACISM IN THE 99 percent.

We spoke out about how nobody was taking about the racist foundation of coporate greed.

How do we talk about classim without taking about racism?

We were called racist because we empowered ourselves and stood up for what was right.

I…I just…

Fuck you, Philly.  You are my home.  I want to defend you, but when I hear shit like this, I cannot.  There is nothing right about this.  There is no excusing this away.

I stand in solidarity with all the PoC who have been so horribly treated by Occupy Philly.  I don’t know what else to say besides just that - I stand in solidarity with you.

What the FUCK is wrong with people?  I am horrified and nauseated that the workers would use the N-word to begin with, as well as all that other bullshit. Holy shit, stop it, white people. GTFO, bigots. 

When I first saw this pic, before I saw the details, I was happy that POC were coming out to the “occupy” movement. Now I just want to send all the morons there to their rooms. They can protest when they deserve it.