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Attention white people:
It is not up to black people to educate you and help you understand racism. It is not up to black people to tell you what you need to say to your white racist friends. It is not up to black people to undo racism. It is not up to black people to undo white privilege. It is not up to black people to hold your hand while we are trying to save ourselves.
The revolution is happening. It is on your city streets and television screens every day. Black people are tired. We are fed up. We are sick of being tired. Being black in America is exhausting, because AmeriKKKa gaslights black people on a daily basis.
Please do not add to the insult that is existing in a space of white supremacy as a black person by bringing your white self over and asking for absolution and validation and a pat on the head for being a good white.
Read the room, white people. Read the room.
Fight the power. Fuck the police.
https://www.theroot.com/auntie-unfiltered-black-people-can-t-save-you-we-tryn-1843998419
I am white and grew up in a very small town. My parents for all their faults taught us about diversity.
marble falls
(57,240 posts)sheshe2
(83,925 posts)Past time, mf.
JI7
(89,271 posts)or what they can say or do for black people.
But the best thing is to call out the racism among white people. no more excuses like economic anxiety fir supporting openly bigoted trash like trump.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)It may make some people feel better, clever or empowered--in the same manner that FOXHenhouse's steady stream of horseshit makes trumpkins feel better, clever and empowered--but it's counterproductive.
Nobody brayed "take a seat and be quiet white boy" at me during the protest this morning.
When I ask people to vote blue, it's not to "save white people."
It's to save US.
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)marble falls
(57,240 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:57 PM - Edit history (1)
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)whathehell
(29,094 posts)marble falls
(57,240 posts)whathehell
(29,094 posts)I guess that will do.
marble falls
(57,240 posts)whathehell
(29,094 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Stop whining, get over yourself, and go talk to some racist white people about how to stop being racists.
This isn't about you.
whathehell
(29,094 posts)I think Aunty may be confused.
Perhaps you are confused.
Black Women Voters Will Be Central to the 2020 Presidential Election, Experts Predict
After black women delivered some notable advances for Democrats during last years midterm elections, they have emerged as a key voting bloc going into the 2020 presidential race.
In the wake of the general election last year, black women stand out as a demographic group with one of the largest voter turnouts. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that 55% of eligible black women voters cast ballots in November 2018, a full six percentage points above the national turnout.
https://fortune.com/2019/06/20/black-women-voters-2020-election/
They are saving our ass whether you ask them to or not. Fact is they don't need asking, they know full well what not voting will do for their lives, their children's lives and the future of this planet.
whathehell
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People vote in their own ( perceived) self- interest. That being the case, I don't understand the need for "gratitude" when the self-interest of another group of people coincides with my own and they vote on it. As it happens, there's no one demographic whose ass
needs "saving" more than their own, and no single constituency can win the election by themselves.
Goodheart
(5,345 posts)I don't need Auntie to validate me.
whathehell
(29,094 posts)sheshe2
(83,925 posts)Seriously?
Goodheart
(5,345 posts)But this much is true, whatever you answer: I don't need Auntie to "validate" me. I do that for myself.
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)Goodheart
(5,345 posts)But I didn't come by that by being made to feel guilty about myself. Or by seeking "validation".
She runs a danger of alienating those allies to whom and about whom she's preaching.
sheshe2
(83,925 posts)Then it is not about YOU!
16. I agree that's true.
But I didn't come by that by being made to feel guilty about myself. Or by seeking "validation".
I don't feel guilty. It is not about me. What I do feel is the pain and the heartbreak of all these lives that have been needlessly murdered due to racism and an out of control PD.
When you are an ally, then you are one without question. Yes, the truth hurts at times, yet an ally will always stand up for the injustice.
It is not preaching, it is teaching.
whathehell
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but it doesn't pertain to Me, I'm just supposed to "keep quiet" about it?
That's strange since I know any non-positive generalization made about a racial or religious group OTHER than Whites and Christians would be immediately challenged, if not alerted on and hidden for "bias"
So funny how that particular expectation (Double Standard) doesn't seem to apply to any.other group here but White/Christian/and/or Sexual Majorities.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)myself and some things I had help with, mainly from my Mom but from other people too. I don't expect to blame anyone for the way I was before, that was totally my respnsibility. But I do know that everyone
in our great diverse human family can lift each other up and support each other regardless of skin color
or ethnic background. Otherwise what are we good for?