Jews have not spent as much time in the past 90 years sharing images of their suffering as Muslims have in the past six months of ours. This is only a slight exaggeration.
Yet the jews have strategically documented and immortalised their suffering in the right places. And continue to do so. We could even say they placed their suffering in such a way that the Palestinians can't get the same attention.
And they went to work. Building support and leverage. Putting their influence over where it matters.
Lupe Fiasco is a Muslim. The term “our people” should never be used in an exclusionary manner when speaking about Muslims after speaking about black peoples, because many black peoples are Muslim. And frankly, I’m getting tired of folks walking around acting like they do not know this.
I dont think that's a fair characterisation of what I wrote at all.
It's not a term. I was being literal, not exclusionary. I'm drawing a comparison between the sentiments expressed by the interviewer who was funnily enough exclusively talking about black people. He was not talking about Muslims or black Muslims as a people. Can that sentiment be applied to our people: Muslims? That was my point.
As for Lupe being a Muslim. He is on record denying ayahs of the Quran. I don't know if he's repented from these views but I don't feel comfortable including him in the Muslim grouping as far as this piece is concerned.
In any case, his wisdom on the matter was what I wanted to share. And his role in this piece is not of a representative of Islam but of the Black community which just happened to be the subject matter of the interview. It could have been any race or group. That was never the point.
The point is to not glorify our suffering, even if we aren't aware we're doing it.
Jews have not spent as much time in the past 90 years sharing images of their suffering as Muslims have in the past six months of ours. This is only a slight exaggeration.
Spot on.
Yet the jews have strategically documented and immortalised their suffering in the right places. And continue to do so. We could even say they placed their suffering in such a way that the Palestinians can't get the same attention.
And they went to work. Building support and leverage. Putting their influence over where it matters.
Lupe Fiasco is a Muslim. The term “our people” should never be used in an exclusionary manner when speaking about Muslims after speaking about black peoples, because many black peoples are Muslim. And frankly, I’m getting tired of folks walking around acting like they do not know this.
I dont think that's a fair characterisation of what I wrote at all.
It's not a term. I was being literal, not exclusionary. I'm drawing a comparison between the sentiments expressed by the interviewer who was funnily enough exclusively talking about black people. He was not talking about Muslims or black Muslims as a people. Can that sentiment be applied to our people: Muslims? That was my point.
As for Lupe being a Muslim. He is on record denying ayahs of the Quran. I don't know if he's repented from these views but I don't feel comfortable including him in the Muslim grouping as far as this piece is concerned.
In any case, his wisdom on the matter was what I wanted to share. And his role in this piece is not of a representative of Islam but of the Black community which just happened to be the subject matter of the interview. It could have been any race or group. That was never the point.
The point is to not glorify our suffering, even if we aren't aware we're doing it.