First, learn what racism is, and what it’s not. I need White people to understand that all White people are racist.
Admit it, and let’s move onto the business of repairing and healing the country. We can’t do it without you.
Yes my dears, all White people are racists. All. Of. Them.
Here is where you stop to cry, clutch your pearls, rant and rave aloud to tell me how wrong I am, and to tell me not all White people. I’m doing reverse racism (there’s no such thing as reverse racism), and you’re ready to do tit for tat with me and every Black person on the internet (because you’re too afraid to say this nonsense in person) on how terrible Black people are. I have [fill in the blank White person savior activity here], so I know I’m not racist. I don’t say the N-word; I go to church with Black people, and I even go to lunch with the Black lady/guy from my job. I have a biracial child. …
The New Book “Fieldnotes On Allyship” Is A Great Tool To Help New Allies and Anti Racism Advocates On Their Journeys.
Achieving equality feels hopeless most days because so many people are so unwilling to invest in educating themselves about racism. Racism is the primary driver of inequality in America. Understanding racism is the only way we can do the work of making things more fair, and I’m all for that. It’s one reason I write so much about race. I’m vested anti-racism education because I benefit from it even the road is slow going. There aren’t many good resources that describe racism using first-hand accounts and experiences through the eye of victims.
Often, when we writers talk about racism and inequality, there is no dictionary or definitions describing what we are referring to in our pieces to help novice anti-racists understand what we mean. With anti-racism, it’s not always good for allies to lean on other own understanding. Their understanding (or lack of understanding) about racism is part of the problem. White anti-racists often have a very limited definition in their minds of what racism is. For victims, their definitions and interpretations of what we experience daily don’t compare. Any effort to talk about it is like striking a match. …
The one Black people never finish giving.
Racists Are Angry With Us
Most Black people know what I’m about to say, especially if you live in the South, but I’m sure there are plenty of you who have no clue about White America’s history of White mobs and White rage. Many people will be trying to redirect you to the Holocaust, but America has it’s own violent history of genocide and killing citizens, that’s lasted far longer than the Holocaust did. White violence towards Blacks has never ended.
While many other once Brown groups have been grandfathered into Whiteness, Black people have never had such fortunes. Black people have been the permanent underclass of this nation, and White folks plan on keeping us that way by hook or by crook. We voted and resisted. …
White people have always fought change. It’s also time for White folks to look in the mirror at the nation’s violent history.
America Is In Shambles
The nation’s Capital Building was breached this week, and no one Black is surprised. Whiteness’ insatiable appetite for violence combined with White people’s unwillingness to see themselves for who they truly are has led to the most humiliating breach of the nation’s capital in America history. It’s embarrassing. Our allies are looking at us as if we’re insane. The world feels sorry for us.
So many White people were duped by a racist con man and compromised government officials not once, but twice. The result of the con are impossible to comprehend.
I wasn’t shocked at the insurrection this past Wednesday, because this kind of rebellion has been happening in America since Black folks were freed from slavery. Before I move on, let me make one thing clear. The White mob that ascended upon the nation’s Capital Building held a race riot. Yes, it was insurrection, but it was also a race riot. A large subset of White people do not want Black people, Jewish people, Hispanics, and other Brown folks to have power. If the government isn’t white enough or when things appear to be shifting away from centering Whiteness, White men have always gathered to violently overthrow minorities to take over with absolutely no punishment from the federal and state governments. …
White people need to apologize to the people they’ve actually harmed instead.
By now, you’ve all heard about the disgraceful 2021 insurrection that happened in the nation’s capital on January 6th. Aggrieved White racists stirred up by the worst damned President in history stormed the Capital Building as Congress was attempting to certify the national election, making Joe Biden the President-Elect of the United States and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris. Trump’s stoking White Supremacists led to violence most White people haven’t seen in their lifetimes, especially not from White people. White Supremacists have brought shame unto the United States, one of the biggest advocates of democracy in the world.
With our national shame comes self-reflection. How did we get here to being a third-world, shithole nation? With self reflection for some comes the need to apologize. …
Finding 11,780 votes is just one way White men can take away the rights of Black people.
Black People Are Still Fighting For Rights
I’m sure by now readers have heard the infamous phone call of President Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State in an effort to “find” Trump exactly 11,780 votes so he can have the election results reversed to make in the winner in the Presidential race in the state. Finding votes is code for taking votes from the poorest and most disenfranchised in the state, primarily Black people.
Many people are all upset about the vote finding phone call and the fact Trump attempted to undermine this election. …
White People cannot fight for equality before addressing Black liberty. All men aren’t equal in America, and we damned sure aren’t all free.
Chattel Slavery, America’s Original Sin
America as we know it today (the one created after its 1.5 billion acres of lands were stolen from Native Americans) was founded by slave owners. In the Western world, there were two types of enslavement practiced by slave holders, enslavement and chattel enslavement.
European (White) governments and monarchs supported and legalized chattel slavery. Chattel slavery meant an enslaved person could be owned forever by their slaveowners, and the children and children’s children of enslaved persons born into the chattel enslavement would automatically become enslaved. America practiced chattel slavery for centuries. …
We made it, and I’m so thankful!
Well ya’ll, we made it to the end of the year. If you survived, you deserve a drink. Really, you deserve a drink! We’ve hobbled to the very last day of 2020 and I’m grateful to still be among the living. So many of us didn’t make it. I don’t want to even want to think about it. My goal was simple for 2020. I wanted to survive and help get Trump out of office. I was able to do both. I also wanted to share my views with my readers on how racism got us all into this mess.
Racism is at the root of every problem this country has today, and I feel I was able to get that points across through my extra tough essays. …
And it’s so damned unnecessary.
Life is hard enough with no additional hindrances, but White people seem to go through extraordinary lengths to make life harder for Black people. Truth be told, White people make life harder for themselves too. White people make life hard for everyone.
Racism Makes Life Hard For Us All
I write about race all time, so I don’t have to share here how miserable racism makes Black and Brown people, but it also makes life hard for all of us. Our life expectancy is less than Whites, we earn less than Whites, we often achieve less than Whites, and we can’t even have civil relationships with White people because White privilege, apathy, and power. When racism snuffs our potential, White people pay the price too. For that racist teacher who thought she was making room for White kids by funneling Black kids to prisons and interior educational opportunities, you pay on the back end when we rely on public assistance programs and public or subsidized housing. …
On the dirty business of Black celebrities extracting Black wealth, from poor Black people, on behalf White White Supremacy.
Black Celebrities Exploiting Black People For White Supremacy Is Disgraceful
We Black people can’t make it like this. There has to be a better way.
It’s not that Black celebrities haven’t always been used to peddle pure capitalism to poor Black people for their personal gain, but there’s something about this pandemic that’s made it look especially terrible. I analyze everything and everyone, especially Black people these days, because so many happily sell us down the river for personal financial game. Rich Black people make poor Black people feel guilty about being poor, just like White folks.
Looking out for the safety and well-being of Black people has always been a priority to me, because if we don’t look out for ourselves, no one else will. I’ll always tell my people the truth, even when it’s unpopular. …
