in 2021: if you are so cowardly that you blatantly spread false narratives about people then immediately go on private to ensure no one can check you on your lies?

I'm just blocking you.
in 2021: if you walk into my space on some anti-LGBTQ/black/ND/marginalized group shit-I'm not your friendly neighborhood black person. I'm going to flame you THEN block/ban.
in 2021: if you bully fellow marginalized folx because they aren't Pure Enough 5 You, and make them out to be demons when we're all just trying to survive?

Blocked.
in 2021: if you're less than 2 month old account OR a 2+ year old account with 5-10 followers and you say things like

'fellow blacks'
'[inflammatory query]? honest question.'
'why do you like being gay?'
'I understand its racist/homophobic, but---'
2021 I am engaging radical self-care. That means I'm going to start educating and engaging on MY TERMS.

I'll still make posts. I'll still write on Medium.
but if you out here wanting to show your ass, I ain't pulling your pants back up for you.
'Vanessa we used to be so close, what happened'-said the white person who let a whole ass sexual deviant stay in their community, or the white man who couldn't talk to me more than 5 lines before making a sexual innuendo despite knowing I'm not single.

Nah.
'Vanessa, you don't understand how *I* feel--' tbh I probably understand better than you do, because it's how many of us feel 24/7 and y'all never fucking care. But want us to be at the first doorstep the SECOND you feel slighted.

Ethered.
I'm so tired of trying to be understanding, friendly, caring, and a middle person just for (if I'm being frank) white people under all labels to eventually break down and show their true, selfish, conceited, and fake ass colors.

We literally only exist to make you look better.
Leaving predators in communities, trying to hit Partner?
Ghosting whole ass communities on your own then spinning a narrative to say 'actually I was kicked out'?
Constantly refusing to listen or acknowledge the wrong doing but hoping money counts as a 'I'm sorry'?

Nah.
tbh it's the same energy we deal with w/r/t trolls every fucking day. The only difference is that they don't hide that they're going to waste our time. Dude coming in on Christmas and calling me a man? I know where he stands.
'you'd say I'm as bad as a troll?!'
Y E S.

As a matter of fact, some of y'all are W O R S E.
I know what to do with trolls. They're gloves off day one.

But yall get in our spaces, get friendly, get cozy, call us friends for 1 year+ and the second we ask you to understand our side JUST ONE FUCKING TIME you will actively blame us for YOUR shortcoming.

Over it.
trolls come in and tell me I'm worthless and ugly and their 'job' is done. My calling them a mouthbreathing fuckwomble is me rolling it off.
I've literally sat with white 'allies and friends' who have said 'we get why you're mad, and yea it's fucked up, but just realize *how immature*' it makes you look 🙂' and call this rude ass commentary 'a teaching moment.'
I've endured white queer folx making certain to belittle and shame POC folx for not bending over 900 ways to protect their feelings, while never affording us the same. They want us to put living on the line so they can sleep better. This is shit I expect from Republicans.
it's consistently the white allies who want me to extend an olive branch to the people who hate me AND the people who want to control us/bully us and call it 'friendship', and consistently the white allies that are nowhere to be find when we need aid. Real aid.
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