Thread by @kateneuropsych

@PortiaMcGonagal Yeah, about that: I too once had a White friend who slapped my face and called me a ni---r lover because I was dating my man... And I'm not even repeating what was said once I had my daughter & I had a (a few more than 1 but this will suffice) White friend who threatened to
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@PortiaMcGonagal talk to my supervisor b/c I call out racism in clinical settings etc and on

Really I've had only 1-2 White friends: you know what they did THEY LISTENED LEARNED AND THEN DID SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT THEY LEARNED TO MAKE IT DIFFERENT.

The rest just think we are "friends"
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@PortiaMcGonagal because I don't have the time, energy or life consumption use to spend calling them out for their racism in all that they do and they do it all!

Nor do I have the time or energy NOR WHEREWITHALL to recoup what it will cost me at every juncture; I mean you just have to live
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@PortiaMcGonagal with that sh!t to get anywhere in life. That WW/WP take it as your personal consent for enduring in spite of and under the Superiority of Whiteness in order to do what we do is Machiavellian, and then to be called "a friend" for doing so, is farcical in the extreme!

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@PortiaMcGonagal And it's an effing sh!t show they think I don't see.

That they even call that being friends tells me they don't know the first thing about friendship.

It's all based on blackmailed silence via privilege and power and the minute I violate their entittlements with my
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@PortiaMcGonagal equality they're lighting quick to remind me of my place and will call the entire system into play to back them up. And it comes like clockwork!

There are WP who will partner with me in calling out racism BUT ONLY UP TO A POINT

So yeah about this plethora

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@PortiaMcGonagal of White friends.... Where?

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