my “protest mom” — an extremely pro-black white woman (who doesn’t appropriate our culture or fetishize us) told me about how someone was telling her a story about an aggressive man at a bar and how she immediately visualized him as black. mind you she shows up to EVERY PROTEST.

like literally has taken charges for us, pushed police off of us and everything: and she STILL has INHERENTLY RACIST BIASES AND TENDENCIES that she’s unlearning by participating in the fight for black liberation but that are very much still prominent and manifesting...

and if being called racist is enough to make you not feel welcome and want to leave a movement, you are racist as fuck.

because any “ally” or “accomplice” knows their place in racism, their privilege, and their power and that’s why they join the fight.

and the case by case experiences you’ve had with white people paying your bills or looking out for you or even your friends parents, do not address the overarching system of racism that is promulgated.

there was white people here in GA who loved me but not all Black ppl