Thread by @DrBrittaniJ

PSA to white people who claim to care about (so called) “Diversity and Inclusion” or #DEI

Do us Black people a favor and STOP calling it diversity and “inclusion”.

Just stop!

Ya’ll are racist as hell + clueless about your racism.

Let me break this down for you:

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I don’t want white people to simply “include” me.

I reject the entire premise.

I reject the implication that white people are the norm.

I reject the fact that white people see their disproportionate power in society as natural and acceptable.

I reject the premise that white people should have the power to decide if Me as a Black women is worthy of “inclusion” in key spaces.

(Especially since white ppl control every power space in America)

Btw, that is what you are quietly assuming with the term “inclusion”

🙄🙄🙄

What if the premise was Blackness as the norm?

What if WE decided if we want to include YOU or not? Without your input?

What if the default was YOUR exclusion from the decision-making table?

What if we had all the money and all the power and YOU had to perform for Black people for approval?

What if you had to prove your humanity to US and not the other way around?

What if THAT was the norm?

I’ll tell you - You wouldn’t stand for it.

So stop doing it to us.

You’re gaslighting Black folks en masse with this

And you are WRONG for it.

Shame on you.

I truly believe the reason white people fear Black freedom is because you absolutely know that you abuse your power over us.

You KNOW it. And you KNOW you’re WRONG for it.

But you fear we will do to you what you do to us.

That’s really sad.

UPDATE: Lots of questions coming in but I am out of bandwidth to teach you for today.

The right thing to do: hire a BLACK Diversity consultant to teach at your institution. And PAY THEM well bc this work is exhausting. #NoFreeLabor

I’m out ✌🏿