Blackout Tuesday

What is your connection to black people?
Do you have black friends?
Do you understand how black people live?
Or is it just the stuff you see on TV?

It's not the job of a black person to fucking educate you on what you can google.

Embracing cultural diversity like a healthy balanced diet. You can't rely on mayonnaise and be healthy

You are not a missionary, you don't need to actively look for a black friend to give you a zoo insight. You need to try and go through the experience. You need to be part of the community, be part of the struggle, not be the tourist of the goddamn experience.

You want everything except the struggle : Cultural Appropriation.

They think they are not racist because:
-They have a black friend.
-They don't attend a kkk meeting.
-They watch Tyler Perry or like Beyonce.

A lot think they are fine and not racist, but then when it comes to a black man telling a white person you are not following the rules, the response is much different from what they would give to another white person. Black people in different professions are spoken to by whites like they are less of a person, and these white people firmly believe they are not racist when they are constantly acting on built up cultural and social biases towards black folks.

Shout out to white folks who suddenly have access to some minority within a controlled environment, where they are in charge and in control, and think of them as amusing and some exotic animal in a zoo.

White supremacy is a spectrum. There are biases and features that you should actively fight.

This is not an overraction. The anger is not misplaced. The pain is not misplaced. People seem more worried about a fucking window than a broken neck. Surprised that this country didn't burn any sooner.

Whomever is willing to listen to me is not part of the problem. I am preaching to the choir. It boils down to the white people posting, the ones that are linked to racist ass aunties and grandmas and friends. That's where they should start, the white people that are problematic in other white people's lives. Speak up, black folks can't do it, they will be fired or arrested. But if you are the white person sitting next to them, you pipe up you speak up. They will listen to you.

Educate yourself on the laws and the system that was set to keep black folks under the foot, educate yourself, educate yourself, EDU-CATE YOUR-SELF

Posting it Again because fuck