Thread by @LuvMacyIsabella

This is my story of how I used to be a vial racist, but evolved far away from racism.

Delete / block me if you want. I’m not here for the numbers / followers.

I’m here to share my story, my experience and hopefully make a change in this world before I depart.

My story is 1/

My story is... my family is from Oklahoma, later moved to east California (Republican territory). We grew up in an all white neighborhood called “Okieville”. Any POC were not allowed in the community without problems. My family had superior white power tattoos, drove around in 2/

big old ugly trucks with enormous American flags in the back and big guns in the back windows of them. We called African Americans vial names regularly (I won’t repeat them here or anywhere ever again). Every ethnicity had a vial name we called them. We never associated with 3/

POC, because they were beneath us, and we told them all to go back to where they came from. When I became a teenager, I was raped twice in one week, by an ex BF and by a black man (stranger) and got pregnant. My church pastor wouldn’t let me get an abortion, so I was suicidal 4/

for my entire pregnancy thinking a black person was inside of me. I found someone to adopt my baby, but when he was born, he was white, so I kept him. I moved to San Francisco, because I didn’t want to raise my kids around my drug addicted family. I was young and didn’t know 5/

SF was a liberal city. I thought it was just a good place to find a great job. I’ve been in SF for 36 years now. It took me about 10 years to start realizing POC weren’t vial Aholes, but that I was the vial Ahole. I had no idea for all those years what a POS I was for hating 6/

on people I’d never even met. I now date black men, any race actually. I couldn’t give 2 $hits what my family thinks of it either. They can F off if they don’t like it. I now work with YWCA in SF to fight against racism and equality (whoda thunk it?) and I’m thoroughly ashamed 7/

of my past. Most of my family (98%) are still awful huge racists. It kills my heart, and I try every day to make a change, to help open people’s eyes. I’m crying as I’m even writing this thinking about all the people I’ve hurt in my life with my words and actions, and I’ll 8/

spend the rest of my life trying to make a difference in this world. People are a product of their environment and if they won’t leave their environments, then we need to go into them. We need to reach them. We have to find a way to reach these people, and we need to work hard 9/

and fast. People are dying, children are dying, pointlessly, simply for the color of their skin. Please fight with me too!! #FightRacism #EndRacism 10 END

Vile not vial - but I did used to be a Republican lol