YES THIS
#HumilityRequired
There's 1) a delusional relating/ relationship there IN YOUR MIND if you think, even for a nanosec, that you, as White man/woman of any persuasion, know what its like to be Black in America
(1/x of a very long thread)
#HumilityRequired
There's 1) a delusional relating/ relationship there IN YOUR MIND if you think, even for a nanosec, that you, as White man/woman of any persuasion, know what its like to be Black in America
(1/x of a very long thread)
2) That you do so, is evidence of assumptive privilege right there,
A) the privilege to assume you know what its like to wear Black skin in the same room as you,
B) the privilege to assume a relationship with us WITHOUT EVER REALLY HAVING TALKED TO US (in all our many (2/x)
A) the privilege to assume you know what its like to wear Black skin in the same room as you,
B) the privilege to assume a relationship with us WITHOUT EVER REALLY HAVING TALKED TO US (in all our many (2/x)
color shades, from the churches in the valleys high and low across districts and regions from mountains to plains & hill country from working farms, to rural, suburban and urban schools, backyard gardens to community centers in urban legacy neighborhoods with free standing (3/x)
homes and projects alike; the air thick with a palpable mixture of old and young, poor, middle & working classes, filled with sometimes joy, pain, (24 hour special blend of anxious love pain-grief-anger-fear that accompanies being a Black parent), hard and harder work, (4/x)
resourcefulness, street cred and street fear, anger, addiction, genius, hope and hoplessness, creativity, sweetness, unrelenting senseless tragedy, studious people, philosophical, educated folk, wisdom you can't find anywhere else, compassion, coldness, sadness, gangs, (5/x)
depression, integrity, dignity, early death, mean death, preventable death, restlessness, life, food, loss, grief, love and music, always music...all under the paul of America's racism and misgynoir?
What I really want to know is, how it is you think you can relate (6/x)
What I really want to know is, how it is you think you can relate (6/x)
when JUST ONE OF US in your neighborhood calls down 6 squad cars; let alone quietly sitting in Starbucks, holding a cell phone in our grandparents backyard, trying to get into our own house, JUST BEING IN OUR OWN HOUSE, driving with license for car and gun in the glove box, (7/x)
knowing when you tell your daughter/son "call the po-lice if something happens" equally that means bad to worse is likely to accompany such a call with the risk of death to your son, exponentially higher. Do you even realize this is terrorizing....Black folks live in (8/x)
structurally doled out terror that is legitimized, rationalized & justified institutionally which feeds embedded cultural memes & hermeneutics, the constant languaging and re-languaging of race legitimized via platforms "of listening to both sides" (9/x)
fronted ad nauseam via MSM daily, daily we walk through that sh!t minute by minute, knowing if we say, do, look, look at, or breath the wrong way.....
How many WP when they move into a White neighborhood, before even going to the new house, go straight to the (10/x)
How many WP when they move into a White neighborhood, before even going to the new house, go straight to the (10/x)
police station, wife and kids in tow, introduce yourself, deed in hand, shake, EVERY OFFICER'S HAND while making small talk about kids, schools and community rec centers so they KNOW YOU BELONG THERE and then leave pics, updated yearly via Christmas cards in an attempt to (11/x)
prevent the worst? And, then theres the hundreds of Black girls kidnapped every year you never hear about, but let ONE of your children be 5 hours late and it's all over national news .... But you can relate. Hannah's straight with it here. We know you don't know. (12/x)
We also know you don't ask. So when you say you can relate
3) we know you're lying and so do you
4) we know you're not really interested beyond what we can do for you.
5) exploitation is not a good opener,
(13/x)
3) we know you're lying and so do you
4) we know you're not really interested beyond what we can do for you.
5) exploitation is not a good opener,
(13/x)
But this is not new political, personal or life agenda; it's simply t/obvious announcement that youre continuing along with structural institutional and cultural racism/misogynoir and keeping/holding/clinging to your position of power and privilege within it.(14/x)
(i.e., PAU=politics as usual)
PS. About that delusional assumption of your relating/relationship, I can't relate.... and neither can you!
(15/x) END
PS. About that delusional assumption of your relating/relationship, I can't relate.... and neither can you!
(15/x) END
