❖ Lady M. Shout-Out Mapes. Anti-racism trainer. Writer. Consultant. Wild Reverend Mother. ED @muslimarc Futures strategist @FreshPulp Magazine
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Y’all began Black history month attacking Ilhan Omar and began women’s history month attacking Ilhan. Y’all really hate Black Muslim women who question stuff.
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Black Muslim women exist and we are tired of everybody’s racist, islamophobic, sexist behinds.
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Michael Rapport and Selma Blair want to deport American Muslims, 1/3 of whom are descendants of enslaved Africans who built this country, like myself and my family. All because we see the humanity of Palestinians. Okay, we see you.
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“It’s complicated” is a phrase we use to describe a noncommittal relationships, not genocide.
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There are Black Palestinians. My baby was raised with their babies. They are my family, and I will be in solidarity till they bury me.
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Somebody targeted my child because her father spoke up for Palestine. They doxed him with a screen shot of her picture. The threat came from Israel. Has anybody else in the US have had their children threatened?
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In 2005 I was a TA for a @Stanford class & an undergrad student wrote a paper using racial essentialisms to argue that segregation is justifiable for Palestinians. My Jewish professor graded the student’s paper separately and gave them an A so I wouldn’t face backlash.
.@jonstewart and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss Coates's trip to Palestine and his revelation that "your oppression will not save you" from his book, "The Message"
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Drop all charges against protestors!!
Drop all charges against protestors!!
Drop all charges against protestors!!
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The ummah is broken, Indonesia attacking Rohingya, Pakistan deporting Afghans, North Africa brutalizing Black migrants.
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Please lift up any vigils or prayer services for over 160 Muslims slaughtered in Mali. Ya Allah please shower the victims with your infinite mercy and ease the suffering of those left behind, and assistance to the displaced. 🤲🏾
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That person sounds manipulative and insecure as all hell. They are just weaponizing TikTok mental health language to blame someone else.
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As a parent, I can only imagine the terrible grief #Nabra's parents feel. We mourn with you and pray for her.
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Back in 1998, white guys whose beards connected started getting chin straps and caesar cuts to look like this to holla at white girls who only dated Black guys 😭😭😭
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It was painful essay to read. My grandmother lived in Jim Crow South, great grandfather fled racist violence and we lost our family land, my brother was born during the end of that racist regime.
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I still can’t get over that a White Muslim who was massively microagressive towards me when I was doing fieldwork on race in a Muslim majority country is now considered to have written a definitive book on Blackness in Islam.
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My communities aren’t the best at supporting women going through the mourning period a divorce and probably they are uncomfortable celebrating the closure that comes from a long drawn out divorce. But yay!! I just was informed that the settlement was filed 🎉🎉🎉
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Using a lynch mob reference against people whose families were terrorized by lynch mobs is so tone deaf. My great grandfather had to leave Georgia and migrate North due to that real threat.
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Anybody who profits from Kanye being on their shows or in an interview or allows him to spew hate online is complicit.
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I went to an iftar and an elder at my table asked if I was married, I said divorced feeling all awkward about my life situation. But then gave me a flyer saying “looking for a wife” with his number on it. 😭Fam, have the courage of a Black Muslim elder and gatling gun your shots.
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I'm so here for this
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Status is given by proximity to whiteness in opposition to Blackness. No matter the economic, political, and social disintegration in their homeland, non-Black People of Color often position themselves superior to Black Africans
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Just a note for the post 1965 nonBlack immigrants from Asia and Middle East, Black Women been saved y’all multiple times. You can start by reading up on Ella Baker and Fannie Lou Hamer and support Black Women’s leadership. We’re not just footnotes.
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May Allah bless you with the gift of kindness, patience and love. Eid Mubarak!
#EidMubarak
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This Cleopatra movie is not going to do well in the Egypt, the country where it based, because of the politics of the actress. But wypipo don’t care about the cultural sensitivities of North Africans.
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This happened to me. Harvard asked me to present on my research on criminalization of Black Muslims. I have to cover childcare cost when I travel. They said can’t help me.
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This Ramadan, three Black Muslim Women have been targeted in violent attacks #PortlandStabbing #RahmaWarsame #Nabra
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I thought this was sarcasm.
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
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The tone policing of reputable Black public figures, calling Black twitter a lynch mob, paternalistic statements all point to disgusting internalization of supremacist attitudes towards Black people.
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I pray this brother is having a great Ramadan. He will get so much barakah for this.
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We’ve normalized the oppression of Shia in all of our institutions and it’s time we stand up against it with courage and continual resolve.
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I’m so sorry. The comments and replies show how much trauma and harassment Muslim youth faced from people whose charge was to educate and guide them.
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Any South Asian who claims Black People who use henna are culturally appropriating can kiss my and and all of my ancestors’ behinds if they don’t correct themselves. ayibamagazine.com/history-he…
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I’m in solidarity with the besieged Muslim community in India and all religious minorities worldwide. 🙏🏾
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I was not born into a Muslim family. But I’ve been Muslim for 25 years and I have a lived experience building in community, as well as traditional Islamic and academic scholarship, yet I am not seen as an authority on Islam. I’m only asked to speak on Black Muslim representation.
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Being a black Muslim woman a full time job, Bilal says | McClatchy Washington Bureau mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-…
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I’m so honored to be the recipient of @CAIRNational’s 2020 Muslim of the Year award for my work at @MuslimARC. I accept on behalf of all of YOU who have answered the call to interrupt racism in our communities and show up for racial justice.
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Philly came through. Detroit came through. Atlanta came through. Navajo nation came through.
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The Black people in our network who have passed from COVID-19 do not drink alcohol, they ate healthy food, and they did not go to parties. Your blame the victim stuff is not only a corny attempt at respectability politics and white appeasement, but it’s dangerous.
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So while we mourn 50 Muslims who were gunned down in New Zealand and Muslims face Islamophobic harassment across the country on the streets and online, Jess Hilarious targets 4 Sikh men for wearing turbans and gets the removed from flight because she’s afraid of Muslims.
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Not only do Black Muslim women scholars face structural racism and Islamophobia in the academy, we face gendered racism, gatekeeping, and erasure in Muslim communities.
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In a great training where the other guest speaker highlighted this image.
12 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina, reporters must still be aware of implicit bias. #HurricaneHarvey
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She’s a war hawk. I have an MA in Middle East history. The students deeply understand how much the US undermined the peace process and the human rights of Palestinians over the past 75 years.
Hillary Clinton criticizes pro-Palestinian protests and says many young people she’s spoken to “don't know very much at all about the history of the Middle East or, frankly, about history in many areas of the world.”
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They took my other class on race, slavery and Muslim societies. They would write Islamophobic essays and meet with me shaking. It was all troubling. I am sure they are living a privileged life now.
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Non-Black people should do an inventory of how many times they post images of Black people reaction gifs and memes because digital Black-face is a thing.
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I figured I throw my hat in the ring of for #BlackOutEid. I found this $25 dress pre-pandemic. #EidMubarak
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If you’re a Muslim lawyer I’m sure it wasn’t your intention to go to school all those years and study for the bar exam to threaten to sue young Muslims girls. But now we’re here.
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It absolutely makes sense given the history of Arab slave trade and racism against Afro Arabs and Black migrants + aspirational whiteness of many Arab immigrants would create the cognitive conditions for this kind of behavior from them both.
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It's youm al jumuah, read Surah Al Kahf, bail out protestors and fund their protective gear! 😷
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When you don’t think Muslims and Arabs are human, it’s easy to dismiss the murder of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the spike in harassment and threats we face in the West.
I’m sorry but Islamophobia and that single horrible incident in Illinois does not belong in this debate given what’s happening to Jews. The problem right now is not Islamophobia
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To be transparent, since the COVID pandemic, I've been working 7 days a week and with 12-15 hour days, while single parenting, with a little resourced organization. The best thing people can do is to support Black-led organizations financially or materially by volunteering.
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In the 90s I watched in horror during the genocide against Bosnian Muslims, worked with refugees at MCA, and supported organizing for human rights intervention. My senior thesis was on Bosnian Muslims. I’m so disgusted by Nobel prize going to a genocide denier.
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So we got dressed up and decorated our car for the SoCal Drive thru Eid. #BlackOutEid #eidmubarak2020 #mutualEid #Quaranteid
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Please don’t send us passive aggressive pre-Ramadan “Forgive me IF I ever hurt you” memes. Come at us like the G you claim to be and let’s work on prophetic practices of tauba and kinship.
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I hope you include at least one Black Muslim screenwriter on your project to be inclusive. Just because people share the same faith does not mean that they have the cultural competency to write nuanced authentic characters that reflect the range of African Diasporic experiences.
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The racism coming from Zionists right now is so repugnant. How are you vilifying Black people who are simply calling for a cease fire? Your grandparent joining a freedom ride does not earn blind loyalty to a genocidal state.
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Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Samoa, Virgin Islands, and all of Turtle Island would like to have a word.
1. Colonialism isn’t fascism
2. America doesn’t have a large network of colonies
3. Palestine DEFINITELY isn’t an American colony
4. Authoritarianism also isn’t usually fascism
5. Biden isn’t any kind of authoritarian
6. This entire discourse is indefensibly absurd
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How much aid are you sending? My peoples are raising money and sending direct relief.
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I spent about 4 years in grad school, and have a master's in history focused on the Middle East and Islam in Africa, did extensive fieldwork on African diaspora in ME and wrote qualifying papers on a Sufi Tariqa and transformations in Islamic, but hardly anybody asks me.
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Interfaith groups organize panels like: Reverend Ph.D., Rabbi Ph.D, Priest Ph.D, then one Muslim millennial influencer who has 10K+ followers.
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I found my 1994 back in the day pic with the shoulder-pad-abaya. You couldn’t tell me nothin!! And I miss my nose ring.
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I make du’a to die as a Muslim. So when they bury me, my community can let me down one last time.
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One time we had a home invasion. It was the second time my mom beat up and restrained someone breaking in. He called us the n-word. It was wild.
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Hope Muslims celebrating #MahershalaAli as first Muslim to win #Oscars accept Ahamdis as co-religionists & support them against persecution
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I'm not going to lie. The ousting of Ilhan Omar has reminded me of the many times I have been excluded, made unwelcome, and uninvited to spaces because I spoke my truth. The vulnerability that public Black Muslim face is a price we bear for existing. It is a lot. I pray for her.
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I just learned my aunt Evamae passed, 2 weeks after her daughter passed, one year after her mother transitioned, and less than 2 years after her son’s janazah. I need a moment to process the struggles in my family. And we can always use your prayers.
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I used to take my daughter to Sesame Place all the time. I’m glad she was banned. abc7.com/society/woman-banne…
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I’ve been Muslim almost 30 years and I haven’t been perfect. Islam is. I love Allah and the Ummah and our Prophet Muhammad. I’m blessed to raise my daughter in this faith. My life’s work is a love letter to my Ummah.
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When I was in Middle East studies doing work on race, I faced so much push back against my work. For them, an African American Muslim woman did not belong in that space. But white scholars were welcome.
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Me getting rid of Muslim Pro because we’re in the middle of a potential coup and they sending a tracking device to round us up. Who needs Muslim registry when your peeps sending your location?
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Mosques across America dedicate Friday sermons to confronting racism, police brutality religionnews.com/2020/06/05/…
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