Sophia’s Reviews > Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race > Status Update

Liverpool’s was the biggest slave port, how sad is that. Since 7th century, my Prophet (SAWS) said to free slaves.

“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power”. Remember our Prophet (SAWS) said there is no superiority in race 🤍

People of colour, non white, I don’t really personally adhere to the semantic part for this terminology. I remember a few months ago someone tried to, definitely a paid post, say the word disabled is bad which is a reach, but the whole point is that disabled people are referred to as disabled, it gets the most reach so trying to assign another term is to try + limit reach. It was obviously illogical + manipulation.

She talks about how ‘nice white people’ are used as shields, which you do see ‘what about this person? If you speak, this nice white person could’, but they are just shields, instead of just listening + making changes.

She talks about how if she speaks, she faces consequences, painted with racist tropes that threaten their safety (for Muslim equivalent, it’s other tropes that we could be subjected to then which are basically, well, phobic) + they use their influence, ability + others to rewrite history + make lies the truth.. I would say because they can, but ultimately dua of the oppressed + eventually God intervenes

I remember reading part 1 of a book series (part 2 + 3 of the series was missing on shelves) but it said peacefully resist (march) no matter what you’re subjected to. They were a community together. One overpowered + oppressed is different. Someone was pressured to tell me to get on the white side, but my Prophet (SAWS) says no race is superior. People pick + choose what to apply to others what benefits them.

Never had to think about.. I think there’s been far too much history in general that we learn in school to know there is ‘unconscious bias’ prevalent hence history wouldn’t have happened.

Gonna reread this, see how I feel now because I read it so long ago and opinions change or adapt, we’ll see.

“I consider myself to be part of a movement, and I think that if you are deeply touched by what you read in this book, then you are part of the movement too. It’s happening right now.”

“Immigration blamers encourage you to point to your neighbour and convince yourself that they are the problem, rather than question where wealth is concentrated in this country, and exactly why resources are so scarce...

And the people who push this rhetoric couldn’t care less either way, just as long as you’re not pointing the finger at them.”