NICE White ladies hear ME LOUD & CLEAR! We DGAF if you’re “nice” that niceness is UTTERLY USELESS to US! It’s how you uphold a VIOLENT STATUS QUO in the name of “niceness” “politeness” not making waves. It’s also where your White savior BS comes from. Meditate on these slides!
Being anti racist doesn’t mean being extra nice to Black people, it means being MEAN to RACISTS! Making is socially unacceptable to be one! Calling them out, voting against them, actually PROTECTING POC in MEANINGFUL ways not doing superficial things that make U feel good!
Also when you as a WW stress how NICE you are to Black people I don’t actually HEAR niceness I hear that it’s an EFFORT for you to be nice to us because it doesn’t come naturally. I hear Miss Millie from The Color Purple
“I’ve always been good to YOU PEOPLE”
1 last thing, the more you have to ANNOUNCE you ARE SOMETHING it’s because your actions aren’t speaking for you! So when U tell me you’re “nice” or you’re an “ally” I don’t believe you are EITHER of those things! Shaq doesn’t announce that he’s tall he just shows up! Just show up
It seems like some of you need remedial discourse on why the n word is unacceptable for non Black folks to say under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES (I will not engage how Blk folks use it here that’s a different thread for a diff time) the word itself is VIOLENCE (read that again)
2) That word was used to justify slavery (rape torture & ownership of Blk bodies & no consequences no matter what was done) the word was used to justify Jim Crow & unequal treatment under the law (Plessy vs Ferguson) the word was the last one people heard before they were lynched
3) when you INVOKE THAT WORD, you are aligning yourself with THIS HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and bringing it to the present day and the present situation. You are letting the Blk people in the orbit KNOW YOU ARE NOT A SAFE PERSON you are in fact A THREAT! Nothing you say…
This is happening right now about 15 minutes from where I live in Cincinnati. These are the demons that have been unleashed
They went to Lincoln Heights and got curb stomped! Lincoln heights is the blackety blackest neighborhood Sugar Shack was painted on the corner market (I think the building has since burned down but that’s how culturally Black the neighborhood is)
They can’t possibly be from around here cause everybody HERE knows what Lincoln Heights is, it’d be like trying it in pre gentrified Harlem
This is INCORRECT. READ DYING OF WHITENESS. The problem is WCW would rather BURN IT ALL DOWN THAN SHARE WITH BLK PEOPLE! WCW left the Dem party when the Civil rights act passed. They want to go back to before integration when ONLY THEY got the social safety net. It’s this simple
2) They don’t really think the safety net is “communism” they were fine with it when Roosevelt did “the great deal” because Jim Crow was intact so B people were left OUT of most of the policies. The WCW TURNED ON INSTITUTIONS BECAUSE OF INTEGRATION then it became…
3) Blacks are “welfare queens” “immigrants are stealing your jobs & housing” listen to what that framing TELLS YOU ABOUT THEM. They think they are the only ones that should get resources from the govt & other groups are “undeserving” or “stealing.”
This is the heart of it. His election made certain segments of white rolls feel “left behind” post Jim Crow they had to compete with Black people for jobs, college, etc & they thought their innate whiteness would keep them on top Blk excellence flies in the face of that
2) So when Obama got elected and did such a good job he got reelected you CANNOT DENY HIS EXCELLENCE AND IT BROKE THEIR BRAINS. Whole worldview up in smoke & if whiteness isn’t inherently superior and it’s all you have, you RAGE! “Economic anxiety”
3) “economic anxiety” code for a lot of Blacks have more than me AND THEY SHOULD NOT! That’s what Trump tapped into the confederates that have been here ALL ALONG. He also exposed how ANEMIC white resistance has been to them. Anti racists take back your communities from racists
I’ve been grappling with how to say this for a while so it may be inartful but WM in this county are raised with the default of sociopathy. They are raised to think ONLY of themselves & see their relationship to others in society as 1 of DOMINATION & SUBJUGATION esp Evangelicals
2) 1 of the reasons we need more women and Black people in leadership is because of OUR HISTORY we TEND to approach the world & PROBLEMS COMPLETELY DIFFERENTLY. We are much more communal because we’ve had to be for survival MOST minority groups have. It’s hard to build w people
3) who have no basic understanding of or “buy in” to I am my neighbors keeper esp when they can’t even agree on WHO IS a neighbor. Now imagine the government you get when you’re a neighbor vs a SUBJECT. WM don’t “govern” so much as RULE & we’re in a world of hurt because of it
1) My kid is reading Romeo & Juliet so we were explaining iambic pentameter So I broke out my old drama teacher trick of singing amazing grace to the tune of Gillian’s island (this works)
2) Then googled & found out Taylor swifts shake it off is also in iambic pentameter so we played shake it off while he sang Gillian’s island and I sang amazing grace and it was so fun & blew kiddos mind
3) songs that also work “My Adidas” “Work It” “Fight for your right to party” & “Respect”