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sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 08:43 PM Jun 2020

Auntie Unfiltered: Black People Can't Save You; We Tryna Save Ourselves

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.





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Auntie Unfiltered: Black People Can't Save You; We Tryna Save Ourselves (Original Post) sheshe2 Jun 2020 OP
Fight the power. marble falls Jun 2020 #1
It's time. sheshe2 Jun 2020 #2
yup, there are many white people worried about saying the wrong thing to black people JI7 Jun 2020 #3
Getting tired of this "shut up wypipo" routine. Grokenstein Jun 2020 #4
Guess you missed the point of the article. sheshe2 Jun 2020 #5
Its not about you. marble falls Jun 2020 #6
Thank you, mf. sheshe2 Jun 2020 #7
Then who is it about? whathehell Jun 2020 #9
If ya gotta ask .... marble falls Jun 2020 #21
When you:re stuck for an answer.. whathehell Jun 2020 #22
Good for you! marble falls Jun 2020 #23
You betcha! whathehell Jun 2020 #25
If YOU'RE tired, imagine how WE feel StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #18
I don't know a single white person asking to be "saved" by black people whathehell Jun 2020 #8
Welp. sheshe2 Jun 2020 #12
Lol..'Welp" back at you.. whathehell Jun 2020 #24
WTF is Auntie blabbering about? Goodheart Jun 2020 #10
Lol whathehell Jun 2020 #11
You think this is a joke? sheshe2 Jun 2020 #13
What do you mean by "this"? Goodheart Jun 2020 #14
the article is about black lives matter. nt sheshe2 Jun 2020 #15
I agree that's true. Goodheart Jun 2020 #16
If it is not about you... sheshe2 Jun 2020 #17
So if a negative comment is made about my racial/religious group whathehell Jun 2020 #26
It was a long process for me to become "woke" to racism. Some things I had to figure out by abqtommy Jun 2020 #19
Great post! sheshe2 Jun 2020 #20

JI7

(89,271 posts)
3. yup, there are many white people worried about saying the wrong thing to black people
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:07 PM
Jun 2020

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)
4. Getting tired of this "shut up wypipo" routine.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:12 PM
Jun 2020

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.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
18. If YOU'RE tired, imagine how WE feel
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:00 PM
Jun 2020

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)
8. I don't know a single white person asking to be "saved" by black people
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 09:59 PM
Jun 2020

I think Aunty may be confused.

sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
12. Welp.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:17 PM
Jun 2020

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 year’s 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

(29,094 posts)
24. Lol..'Welp" back at you..
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 12:48 AM
Jun 2020

Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2020, 01:32 AM - Edit history (1)

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)
14. What do you mean by "this"?
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:25 PM
Jun 2020

But this much is true, whatever you answer: I don't need Auntie to "validate" me. I do that for myself.

Goodheart

(5,345 posts)
16. I agree that's true.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:31 PM
Jun 2020

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)
17. If it is not about you...
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 10:52 PM
Jun 2020

Then it is not about YOU!

Goodheart
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.

She runs a danger of alienating those allies to whom and about whom she's preaching.


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

(29,094 posts)
26. So if a negative comment is made about my racial/religious group
Sun Jun 14, 2020, 02:00 AM
Jun 2020

Last edited Sun Jun 14, 2020, 04:17 AM - Edit history (2)

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)
19. It was a long process for me to become "woke" to racism. Some things I had to figure out by
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:30 PM
Jun 2020

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?

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