international friends: here’s the deal. South African scientists have been tracking the COVID genome and keeping an eye out for mutations. Most places in the world aren’t doing so. When we announce a new variant, it’s not necessarily from South Africa, we just publicised the fact that we detected it here. And yet, because we’re a country in the Global South, it doesn’t matter that our scientists are incredible and are doing the world a service by tracking and reporting these things, because our ordinary citizens are being blacklisted because of it and being prevented from entering other countries and placed on red lists for no reason
The moment a movement becomes commercialized, it dies.
When I wrote this, I was very specifically talking about the way in which white people have commercialized black lives matter. So while I understand that you all want to relate this to LGBT issues, and I’m not saying that it’s not relatable, I feel like it’s important to notate that I wrote this specifically in reference to the way that black lives matter has essentially been strangled in its cradle by white people.
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