Salam everyone,

Sometimes I go in and out of the black social media spaces on YouTube instagram and twitter and it pisses me off that for so long no one talked about Sudan but now when the west finally talks about Sudan for two seconds , the black social media pages only want to talk about are Sudanese people black ? Are they Arab ? Or claim Sudan has an identity crisis as one person claimed smh.

These same people have said nothing about the RSF, these same people say nothing about SAF, these same people are silent that the RSF has murdered thousands of innocent people , destroyed historic libraries in Sudan like the library in Oumdurman Ahlia University. They don’t care that so many Sudanese people are displaced , at risk of famine and dying because of manufactured famine , they don’t care about any of these things and it disgusts me and makes me so angry. They keep reducing Sudan to identity politics. It is so infuriating. But whenever it comes to black American problems , like police brutality , these same people will discuss at length about the issues black Americans go through, but when it’s for Sudan these people are either silent , they reduce the crisis in Sudan to identity politics and only care about debating about Sudanese identity with arab and blackness. It is so wild that I have come across a number of black Americans on social media when attempting to even discuss Sudan frame Sudan as the following : “the Arabs are killing the blacks”. I have literally come across this so many times when I tell these people that the genocide in Sudan is targeting Arabs too , or that is not exactly what is happening in Sudan , I then get dragged into an argument with Americans who somehow know everything (sarcasm).

I even come across these same people when trying to talk about the Tigray genocide in Ethiopia literally framed it as, “the light skins are killing the dark skins”. Smh. Do these people commenting these things not care about what is really even happening ???

And even in that discussion , it is never led by Sudanese perspectives, it is always always led by an American perspective. I am sick and tired of this. Why don’t these people actually care about it what is happening in Sudan ??? Imagine if a genocide were to happen in the united states and all the world can talk about is, are Americans blondes or brunettes ?? Like seriously !! Is this what Sudan and the Sudanese people mean to them ?