If Black people were confrontational every time White folks do White Supremacist and systematically racist things, we wouldn't be able to live.

What folks are seeing now is what happens when Black folks are tired of being graceful in the face of Whiteness being itself. https://twitter.com/charlessahm/status/1326658015978807297

To wit: Center-Whites like Mr. Rotherham, who is a colleague of mine, always thinks it is unfair to call those who advocate for policies that harm Black and Brown people exactly what they are. https://twitter.com/arotherham/status/1326591086324830210

Yet what they fail to understand is how so many policies of the present for which Trump supporters and even so-called Never Trumpers advocate are echoes of the Jim Crow and enslavement laws of the past.

Meanwhile there are those Trump voters - 70 million of them - who voted for a man who has committed ethnic cleansing, put immigrants in concentration camps, trampled on the civil liberties and lands of Indigenous peoples, and committed genocide by virus.

A lot of Black folks have to be nice in public because, well, folks need their jobs, and right now, most career fields are controlled by White people. A lot of them who are Trump supporters or even when not, who don't like it when Black folks point out an issue.

Thing is, there are now Black folks who can go a tad further and say some things a lot of White folks don't like because they aren't as dependent on that White dollar as their peers. They do the work that everyone else cannot.

Center-Whites are now being confronted with their mess, the consequences of coddling and enabling White Supremacists (including their relatives) and indulging their own beliefs in their own goodness and nonracism. Many of those folks are also politely racist.

Those folks, along with those White progs, may mean well. But because they have been so unwilling to look at the consequences of the actions of their fellow White folks for so long, they are shocked when a Black person finally says out loud what's been said privately. For years.

That White dude that's been called a racist or White Supremacist? Black people have been saying that about him for years. But until the time was right, it was kept quiet because, well, White folks weren't going to listen anyway.

Well, it's time.

Black folks know better than White people what bigotry, systemic racism and White Supremacy is. You White folks don't get to control that discussion now. We're telling you and whether you like it or not, you better listen.

Correct. Goes for the Center-Whites, too. You can be a White Supremacist without ever explicitly saying it out loud.

In fact, the most-virulent bigots in this nation's history almost never stated what they were doing as racism. https://twitter.com/jacobwaters/status/1326661825111465990

Attempting to fight back by saying that calling someone a bigot is 'out of line' isn't going to work. So you might want to remain silent and stew. And then listen.