Thread by @innodim

Good morntint to everyone except people who reflexively hit the “people shld be hired/admitted/recognized on the basis of their qualifications rgrdlss of skin color/gender” button when a Black (woman) is considered for a position, but not when it’s the usual mediocre white men.

https://twitter.com/oni_blackstock/status/1487415955726733312

These folks are your run-of-the-mill “color blind” intentionally ignorant folks who refuse to understand that we don’t function in a vacuum & the ubiquitous presence & impact of white supremacy informing their expectation of qualifications for marginalized identities while…
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…assuming inherent qualification for white mediocrity. I’m talking blatant mediocrity. We are surrounded by it and suffer the consequences of poor leadership & performance in our places of work, education, service, etc.

Why?

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Because whiteness sets the standard & everything not white or white-approximate is automatically assigned a “less-than” in a white supremacist hierarchical social order needing to “prove” itself in order to even be considered. Often, the only “qualification” is being white.

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And maybe doing the literal bare minimum, effort that would be ascribed to you as “excellence”. While Black people move mountains and are told to “try harder & smilie more.”

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Speaking which - ironically, it’s the self-same white supremacist system that creates the barriers to success against which Black folks resist, survive, & overcome, rendering us infinity times more qualified with outstanding limitless qualities & characteristics…

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…for job performance, educational achievement, & leadership.

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If being a beneficiary of white supremacy patriarchy capitalism & ableism automatically qualifies one for opportunities, then surviving these intersectional mutually reinforcing oppressive systems should automatically doubly, nay, triple-y, qualify the survivors.

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In other words,

Surviving white supremacy patriarchy capitalism & ableism is a super power & an automatic qualification to whatever opportunity the survivor aspires to.

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This is why ALL Americans need to strengthen their critical racial consciousness & literacy, starting with just knowing actual & factual American history. Not the fairy tales the GOP prefers, but real American history from the scholarship & narratives of Black & Indigenous people

Confirm ALL the Black women.
Not for nothing, the mere fact that we stay saving this country since its inception while carrying the rest of the world on our backs, beyond qualifies us.
Beyond.

It’s a crying shame that this is even being debated in the year ‘22.

~fin~