Thread by @digitalsista

A White friend admitted that's it really too hard to be an ally to me. That WP get to say that and they can walk away. They know we can't it's not an option and there lies privilege with a capital P.

I'm saying this after being in rooms where Black immigrants along with WP wanted to know why can't we agree that things are better. They literally acknowledged slavery still exists in the 13th via prisons but deny the effects of systemic racism. I was removed from the room.

We constantly said this is what all foreigners who come to this country say to us. They said it must be something to it because they are just an individual here. Another WP talking point. When I pushed back to say that's what WP say to us they rejected it.

And this is how the divide gets bigger. Someone being here for maybe 15 years thinks they know why it's better for those that have 400 years of legacy knowledge. They join the system that suppresses us and then repeat the exact same words of our oppressors.

"people come here with nothing and seem to be doing fine" why is that if this country is a racist system.

based on "stats" while denying the impacts of redlining, sundown town laws, that there is the same number of BP in prison as were slaves, tip wages based on slavery,

the education system that is literally operating in segregation in places like NYC, while we watch jim crow 2.0 with 48 states changing voting laws cause we picked a POTUS, violence on #J6 an insurrection attempt similar to 1898 Wilmington, state-sanctioned murders,

when harming or killing BP is considered "normal" cause of the "Black on Black" crime when WP have almost the exact same stat, 70% of people in jails with ZERO convictions, Black women dying in or after childbirth more than any other group of women. I can go on you know..

My point in saying this out loud is that we don't really have allys at all. That's part of the system. Helping us. Fighting for us gets people targeted. When I talked about the TX ban about taking away the resources and support systems is what an abuser does. That's this.

That's why those talking points we hear repeatedly exist despite the fact that most of you think you came up with it like we haven't heard it before for centuries. It's wild but mostly disingenuous. Y'all are demanding the victims prove why they are victims.

It's an ongoing framing of gaslighting and no accountability for all of the things listed. Honestly, IMHO it's why CRT is under attack it literally speaks to the laws that are created by this country that are based on race. This country doesn't even want the evidence.

I've tried many times to get people to ask the question that if we are really free why are the majority of BP still in the south. ie RURAL but the constant framing of us being urban is a talking point. Also, why is it the same slave cotton-picking states? Why Urban?!!

We are watching all forms of the southern strategy being deployed but yet things are better?!! Dixiecrats showing their true selves.

The truth is there is indeed Black American resentment that exists. To be honest with all of this it's justified. But America is afraid of the Angry Black person which is why it's a stereotype. White rage is fine. White resentment is just fine even when that violence lands on BP.

The other key piece I want to make sure I don't drop here is that people from outside our community are telling us how our community operates under this system. But also when foreigners say they have traveled. LIKE WUT?!! Black Americans don't travel too?