This is where the White Collective’s “responsibility” lies
Geoge Bernard Shaw said: Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
Upon reading the comment in the screenshot below, which was in response to “White People, Two Reasons Why this Apology Is Bullsh*t,” I expelled a heavy, loaded SIGH. And then, I was immediately filled to the brim with loathing. Frankly, I wanted to tell this comment troll off.
Black people, please don’t use frivolous “racism cards” — it undermines the goal of the collective and it makes us look silly
Does a White Person have to like all Black People in order to prove they’re not a racist? Let me answer that question for you: No.
I’ve been the female victim of “micro” vomit-inducing sexual assaults.
I’ve had my butt grabbed by my barber. My ears have been assaulted by inappropriate sexual references in the workplace. Once, a co-worker jacked off in the elevator in my presence.
Being human is not for sissies. And being a Human of Color is definitely not for sissies with a faint heart.
For centuries, we have navigated being human in a system designed to exclude, undermine, and demolish our humanity, our mental health, and even our right to breathe.
It’s a COVID-19 jungle out there — and poison is in the air we need to breathe
How much needless suffering and dying is enough? Why are we allowing COVID-19 to outwit us?
In the United States, hundreds of thousands of people have endured extended suffering and are eternally dead from COVID-19! And this tragedy is still in progress. Furthermore, health care workers are overworked and traumatized; millions of people are unemployed; homelessness is an impending fright for many of us; and hundreds of companies and businesses — small, medium, and large — are extinct.
Today, I gave away $3, and it made me feel well-to-do and grateful, even though my own funds are limited and stretched.
Humanity is waiting on us to create
Leo Babauta over at Zenhabits.net said: I write of simplicity in a world that’s needlessly complicated.
Not too long ago, I came across these words and it got me thinking about creativity and our social problems.
Being from the tropics makes me more “appetizing” to White People even with my dark skin
As a Black Caribbean-American, my interactions with many White Americans is different than the one many Black Americans have.
Because we have no hope of eradicating systemic racism without you.
White Friends, the racial abyss between White people and People of Color is, in many ways, vast, broad, and bottomless.
An apology for your whiteness is good. for. nothing.
Recently, my best friend who is white was having a conversation with a white co-worker. Apparently, it was a long meandering conversation about the current state of social madness and racial unrest in America. And somewhere along the way, this co-worker uttered these nonsensical words: