Usually I apologize for my anger, but I don't have that in me today.

If you don't see yourself in this thread, but come to assure me you are good, you deserve wrath.

White Americans: Pull. Yourselves. Together. And do not make people of color your emotional support today.

I repeat: I am not here today, or any day, to be your emotional support person of color. Do not slide into my DMs or mentions with requests of exoneration, complaints about your racist relatives, or your shock.

Your shock is like sandpaper on my nerves today.

We've been telling you, for MORE than four years, to unpack your own complicity in white supremacy. To have the hard conversations and not tone police Black women.

Instead, you all...kept not doing that. "But it's easier to talk to people who care!" Some told me last week.

I've watched for weeks as authors I know coddle their racist relatives. Let them snap their jaws, like rabid dogs, at their friends of color on their Facebook posts before shaking their finger - "No, no, you can't do that!"

No unfriending. Very little call-outs.

I've seen at least two talking about how awkward the holiday season is going to be.

You all are still there?

Wake up. Move a few chapters forward.

What happened to burning it all down? Getting tougher? Learning? Being allies? Under the rug now?

What I've been most frightened about is happening today: white allies clutching their pearls over the evidence of white supremacy entrenched in every system of this country, instead of digging in their heels and readying for a fight.

Your complicity is what they coast on.

As a woman of color who was offline all last night but still couldn't sleep due to family emergencies and worries about how we are going to survive until the end of THIS year, much less four more, waking up to you all tearing up and mourning UNCALLED races is exhausting.

Pull. Yourselves. Together.

Get out of my DMs saying you're so sorry and START figuring out how to make yourselves uncomfortable.

Start asking yourself why racism shocks you. What your problems are.

Stop sighing and going, "Oh, the racist South," and start asking yourself how you've been turning away from voter suppression issues and what you can do to fight back.

I'm sure I'm going to see a wave of unfollows, like four years ago, and a bunch of "Well, you're being harsh. EVERYONE is struggling today."

Some of us are, and have been, and will be, struggling for survival more than others.

Put back in your spine, and fight.

Your tears, at this moment, are complicity. Your resignedness, your choosing to sit and be comfortable in your passive "shock", is complicity. Your backsliding and trying to see whether or not you should make up with your racist relatives - I SEE YOU - is complicity.

Reject it.