nagahagachi:

I feel really upset/angry making this post. The word 3abeed/3abd pronounced abeed (عبيد) is an arabic term that translates to the word slave/slaves. So you’re probably wondering why these arabs are talking about slaves in the 21st century. Well this word is used to refer to black people as slaves… And I thought I’d search this word up on twitter to see what I found. I was angry, confused, sad and all sorts when I first read these tweets. Most arabs follow Islam, which is a religion of peace that bans any sort of racial discrimination yet these arabs find it funny to casually use this term to refer to black people, my people, our people. The fact that most of these people live in the west and know about the civil rights movement, they still insist on using these words to degrade my people. This is modern day racism for you.