Thread by @YNB

This will make some of you uncomfortable. I’ve decided to post it anyway because I’ve spent my whole life uncomfortable in this country. You’ll survive.

Don’t hit me w/a #NotAll, either. Use that energy to work on the white women in your life this 100% applies to. YOU know them.

https://twitter.com/cbr_olu/status/1590427926641905664

If you are upset or offended by this thread ask yourself: Where the lie resides about white women as collective?

If you don’t like the tone or language, ask yourself: What’s more indecent…the turn of phrase or the voting statistics that caused the original poster to say it all?

This is no longer about your feelings or discomfort or your tears.

We have seen them all weaponized on camera for years — that Karen name just rolls off y’all these days.

You’ve leaned in like the folks stealing porch packages right in front of ring cams in broad daylight.

I don’t care if you’re uncomfortable, used to like and support me but can’t anymore because I’m mean or woke or too mouthy about things that hurt your feelings.

I don’t care about your feelings.

I care about how you vote. How you as a collective vote HARMS everybody even YOU.

I still can’t wrap my mind around the 53% percent of you who set everything we’re currently going thru — & will CONTINUE to go thru for YEARS — in motion in 2016.

YOU chose a demon over the most qualified person to ever run for President.

All because YOU couldn’t vote for YOU.

What kind of self-hate, Stockholm syndrome, cut off your nose to spite your face mess is that?!

I still don’t understand it.

Let a qualified Black woman run for ANYTHING and watch EVERY Black woman show up — dressed to the nines — to get the sister over the finish line.

Let ANY decent person qualified for the gig run for ANYTHING & watch Black women show up to get them across the finish line.

Because WE get it. It’s about EVERYBODY having what they need — NOT our FEELINGS.

Black women learned long ago no one cares about OUR feelings or tears.

But we still cry every day.

For our country.
For kids.
For justice.
For other women.

And we pray every day that today is the day white women as a collective realize that they have been the problem.

Which means they can be the solution.

And you CAN be the solution.

Here’s how:

Make peace with being uncomfortable. Endure it without crying or whining or blaming anybody else.

Remove #NotAll & #NotMe from your vocabulary.

You are in a group of folks who have historically been villainous. Be outraged that THEY make YOU look bad — & they do.

Then roll up you sleeves and make THEM your project.

Realize that YOU are the ones who truly have access to THEM.

Talk to them. Suggest books and documentaries that helped you see the light.

Remember that they are raising the next generation of white people. Catch them early.

Remind them that they have the power to vote — & to raise others to vote — in a way that HELPS people.

They have the voting power to stop gun violence & corrupt judges & racist policy-makers from EVER holding public office. They can return a woman’s right to choose.

They alone.

I say “they alone” because when you look at the voting statistics, those things have been lost or allowed to thrive in our country because white women and their votes tipped the scales the wrong way.

The power to fix it all is in their hands as well.

Ain’t that good news?

Lastly, I will not be entertaining any shenanigans in my feed about anything I or the original poster said.

We both said it all with our chests.

I also will not be providing any resources to help YOU help THEM.

Google exists.

Do the labor yourself. It’s time to learn how.

As that demon’s mistress turned third wife once said:

#BeBest

Let’s make that our goal as a human collective, shall we?

Y’all have a good one.