Women and minorities are constantly harassed, intimidated and bullied in our every day lives and that has bled into social media. The amount of aggression we receive just because we dare to have a different opinion is unconscionable.
Meghan Markle has triggered so many black women, because it was yet another example that no matter what education we have, success that we have had, that even being married to prince, it cannot shield us or our children from being treated as less than
This is why I have no tolerance for class reductionism. Until we deal with a colonization history, until we deal with the white patriarchy, there will be no social and economic mobility for the majority of America
And you can miss me with those socialist programs, because we’ve seen that before and they will just write black people out of socialist policies with targeted precision. Past is prologue.
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Do y’all want to know why black people are better at seeing through political bull$hit than white people?
(*not all disclaimer here because some people are ridiculous)
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1. White people* buy into narratives easily. A narrative that creates a character that replaces the actual Human. Rather it is Meghan Markle the Bully, Hillary Clinton as Evil, Obama the failure, and Kamala the cop.
2. Y’all made Disney villains out of them. Stripped them from being human, tossed their nuance to the side and boiled them down to a 2D character.