Thread by @DrBritWilliams

Y’all weird. What do you think Black people who grew up in Black spaces but are now outside Black enclaves feel like?

I’m annoyed, yet I have everything I need to protect myself.

Pretending like this heightened open hostility is new is disingenuous. And weird.

https://twitter.com/drbritwilliams/status/1351204422551023617

Being from Atlanta shielded me from a lot of 1:1 stupid stuff y’all experienced. Including racist K12 teachers 😂.

So forgive me if even though I’ve attended/ worked at PWIs I’m processing the current open hostility different. I grew up reading about this, not living it daily.

This is one of the advantages of growing up in neighborhoods that white people were scared to enter save for a few drug addicts.

That said, while middle MN reminds me of every S. GA town without Black folks I never stopped in, y’all act like these people aren’t everywhere.

They’re every where. From schools, to hospitals, to HR, etc.

My belief that the T**mp flag is synonymous with a white power symbol isn’t unfounded. But if I only lived where I wouldn’t regularly see them, that’d leave 5 cities. 😂 the COVID job market don’t work that way.

Besides... I like the flags and hates etc because I know who people are before they get close.

But that doesn’t mean I’ll ever feel safe living around them. It doesn’t mean I’ll stop questioning if they want me dead. Truth be told, I think about it in Atlanta too, however...

I just know enough of us have guns and are ready to throw hands at home so we stand a fighting chance lest there be drone strikes.

TL;DR: I’ll never feel “safe” in the US, I’ve learned too much to go back that way.