Thread by @DrVirgo1981

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)

A thread

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.

2. Y’all also make Disney heroes. Like Bernie the populist. Even trump was a hero dove coming to “fix DC”. He had to do insurrection before y’all finally gave up on the pivot.

(The above was 3) 4. And why? Why are y’all so drawn to stories. And the answer is, y’all been told stories all your life. That the founding fathers were heroes, that you won wars you never won, that FDR was an ideal president.

5. On the other hand black people grew up having to learn that the founding fathers had slaves, that FDR was racist AF and left black people out of the new deal and sent Jewish people back to Germany. We have to learn the whole picture for survival.

6. And y’all tell stories about us. We were looting during Katrina, while y’all were finding things. We are lazy, criminals, weed smoking, on welfare and y’all are hard working and the government is just not giving you the help you need. (Or getting out of your way)

7. You tell yourselves a narrative, while we have to dig for the truth for our survival. We are able to see humanity through the story, excuse y’all constantly steal ours and we know that’s what y’all do.

*because

8. Allies who have done the work simply stopped listening to the Disney story told by and for whiteness and started to see the situation in 3D. They saw that the founding fathers did great things, but also raped slaves.

9. Allies can see systemic racism and hundreds of years of laws that have hurt and oppressed minorities. White people who get upset about this truth are still believing the Disney narrative of whiteness being good.

10. So if you too want to have bull$hit meters like black people, especially black women, then ask yourself next time you are told a story, if you are being sold a narrative. Then ask yourself if the actions and outcome matches the story.

(not all disclaimer here) end thread