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when Black people tell you they don't trust white people, this is why.
We genuinely never, ever know when you're going to get bored with allyship and decide you're done helping. at what point you'll turn your backs on us.
and it's rarely a question of IF you will, but WHEN https://twitter.com/markos/status/1287768942639894528
We genuinely never, ever know when you're going to get bored with allyship and decide you're done helping. at what point you'll turn your backs on us.
and it's rarely a question of IF you will, but WHEN https://twitter.com/markos/status/1287768942639894528
We were already seeing it at protests, weren't we? The video of a white woman protestor in a BW cops face, telling her to "smile for Breonna Taylor." The coverage of the Wall of Moms whose presence supplanted the tireless work of Black moms as far back as Mamie Till.
"Naked Athena," whose privilege in that moment was perhaps valuable but who could only accomplish what she did because white men have possessed and protected white women's pussies for generations. White people tantruming about following Black leaders who direct and drive marches.
Trust me. We knew this was coming. We knew that there was a limit to how much white people would contribute to this cause before they backed off. We knew you'd leave.
As a group, as a culture, white America always does.
As a group, as a culture, white America always does.
Support the #BoycottMariott movement, who are housing violent federal invaders in Portland, OR. https://twitter.com/AuthorConfusion/status/1287508693966360578?s=20
Cue men in my mentions with condescension and literally the worst hot takes. Muting now.
Black Lives Matter. Arrest the officers who killed Breonna Taylor. Register to vote in November and do your part to save USPS so your vote counts.
Hold the line. You're doing great.
Black Lives Matter. Arrest the officers who killed Breonna Taylor. Register to vote in November and do your part to save USPS so your vote counts.
Hold the line. You're doing great.
listen: nobody here was talking abt so-called undecided people, who were never allies in the first place.
I'm talking LITERALLY about the drop in support, which is LITERALLY right there. If you're here to pull out strawmen, I'm not the one.
I'm talking LITERALLY about the drop in support, which is LITERALLY right there. If you're here to pull out strawmen, I'm not the one.
If you're an ally who gets mad hearing that Black people have good reason to be cagey about your support, ask yourself why. Ask yourself if you've ever been trusting and hopeful and then extremely disappointed by that thing or person you trusted not being there when it mattered.
There is a reason this isn't the first civil rights movement centering Black rights and Black lives. Do you think it might be that white people felt they had helped conquer racism in the past?
Trotting out arguments I wasn't making to argue with them isn't allyship, either.
Trotting out arguments I wasn't making to argue with them isn't allyship, either.
It's just a lot of illustrating how Black experiences and Black voices can and are yelled over if white people get in their feelings. If your allyship is criticized or examined in any way, and you get mad instead of reflective, how does that help?
You cannot uplift Black voices if your shouting over them about yourself and how good an ally you are. You need to break yourself down and dispense with the idea that your allyship is beyond reproach.
I have in multiple replies said I'm overall optimistic. I think the movement is strong and appreciate every single person on the ground, sharing info, providing donations or supplies, all of it, regardless of race. This has to be a global movement, and it is.
But if you can't even reflect on a small % shift in support without attacking BLACK FOLX, rather than considering the implications of that shift in support from ONE (1) opinion, you're exactly who I'm talking about.
If your allyship is as fickle as Black folx not seeming grateful enough to you, YOU'RE who I'm talking about.
You don't have to agree with me. But you won't rewrite the lived experiences of myself and many other Black folx so you can feel more comfortable.
You don't have to agree with me. But you won't rewrite the lived experiences of myself and many other Black folx so you can feel more comfortable.
