So, the first tweet I saw this morning was a reply to some white woman complaining about the "don't wash your legs" tweets, etc. I was going to also reply but Twitter refreshed and I don't remember the words well enough to find it, so this is my reply to my fellow white women
Black people have had 400 years of taking comments about their looks, character, and even debates on whether they have souls. They still are not free of the fear of unpunished murder at the hands of police. They are still not free to be in a world without fear, so
we white people can take some ribbing about the poor hygiene habits of our fellow white cohort and pass them the soap without speaking up to share how clean we are. I had a racist freshman roommate (expelled for racism, which shows precisely how racist she was) my freshman year.
She told my best friend in college (We're still friends despite 2900 miles apart.) that she was not welcome in our dorm room because Black people smell musty. My friend didn't tell me until after the roommate was expelled, probably saving me from getting in trouble.
I think of that when someone says something about not washing butts or legs or not moisturizing. White people have been judging Black people 400 years and can take some teasing on Twitter. Besides, no one made those filthy folks talk about how they don't wash.
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