THOUGHTS OF A SOMALI GIRL

T he fact that Muslims are asking about rulings on whether they can support BLM or not...is ju st one of the many examples of racism against blacks within the Muslim community. Seriously, wtf. I've had enough of this crap.  Yes we should also protest against the loss of Muslim lives in Iraq, Somalia and all those other places but they're not getting killed for being Muslims. Muslims are killing Muslims. The same people killing the same people. Over here, Black people are getting killed by White police officers for being Black because of the colour of their skin. A different race killing those of a different race. That's the difference and hence the name "Black lives matter" because clearly they don't to many racist White police officers. The sheikh also says it's hypocritical for Muslims to support Black lives and not Muslim lives. He said this movement is something for "them" and not for "us". He is completely  ignoran...

Hi everyone! Thought I'd share something short today. I help out in a middle school classroom and a few days ago, one of the students in my classroom unknowingly and unintentionally made a racist remark in the skit he was performing with his partner. He was pretending to find some money he lost and said "I'm going to go to a Black person's house, Black people steal".  I was so caught off-guard, I just stared at him and covered my mouth while the 15 Black students (same race but different ethnic backgrounds - duh!) in the class yelled out "Racist! Racist!" and "Yo what hell" and "I'm so shocked". The poor kid just stood there awkwardly smiling. He didn't seem to understand what he'd just said. The substitute teacher, who was Black, immediately took charge of the situation and began a lesson on stereotypes and racism for the whole class and explained to the student (who was not Black) that race has nothing to ...