1. One of the weirder forms of appropriation that seems only possible in the Internet age is non-black people of color who appropriate black trauma as their own pain and exploit it to give themselves imaginary authority over whites.
2. All peoples have a history of trauma, sometimes at the hands of other racial, ethnic, and religious groups but frequently at the hands of people of our own race, co-ethnics and co-religionists.
3. I often wonder if people who do this just don't know their own histories—or maybe don't want to know—or if they cynically appropriate other people's pain/power because it's trendy. 🤔
4. But it's a lot easier to appropriate someone else's pain to gain the moral high ground than deal with your own and educate others about it.
I should note it's not just non-black POC who do this — people of all sorts of identities do this. It's just what I was looking at.
I should note it's not just non-black POC who do this — people of all sorts of identities do this. It's just what I was looking at.
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