Skip to main content

BLACK HISTORY AKA wHITE PEOPLE CONFESS THEIR RACISM MONTH



BLACK HISTORY AKA wHITE PEOPLE CONFESS THEIR RACISM MONTH


So, being that this is Black History Month aka white people confess their darkest thoughts and deeds month, raise your hand if:

Raise your hand if you’ve ever used the N word or ‘thugs’ or ‘animals’ or ‘apes and monkeys’ in reference to us.

If you’ve ever claimed to be part native when your Birth Certificate and all your friends know you as white.

If you’ve ever said about our oppression, ‘Well why don’t they just...”

If you’ve had any hand in poisoning our drinking water.

If you’ve put feces on your Black classmates’ toothbrush or on any item thereof.

If you’ve ever worn blackface outside of a concert, play or sporting event.

If you’ve walked around with an escrima stick just itching for some Black dude to mess with you.

If you acknowledge that systemic racism is strong but ‘because of my upbringing and intelligence, I stand immune.’

If you’ve tried to sabotage a Black person in some way or witnessed it and said NOTHING.

If after we’ve posted a hard-hitting truth on our page, you’ve immediately commented, ‘Not me, right?’

If you’ve ever gaslighted our pain with ‘overreacting’, ‘Jesus, King or Obama wouldn’t...’, ‘Prove it!’ or ‘Snopes says’.

If you’ve agreed wholeheartedly with our posts but your page has only puppies and kittens and what you had for brunch.

If you keep trying to push for reforms, bodycams, civilian oversight and better training instead of firing ALL white cops from elsewheres because the IDEA, for some reason causes you discomfort -

all while OUR CHILDREN (and not yours) are brutalized and murdered by cops in the street with impunity.

If you’ve ever been promoted over the Black woman who trained you.

If you’ve ever thought that your Black coworker or fellow student or teacher is somehow less than due to quotas

when in fact it’s usually the other way around where they’ll see your white face and give you a shot because they sense you have potential

and your Black counterparts have to jump through hoops and are chosen amongst a sea of overqualified, only to be considered half as good or not the ‘right fit’.

If you followed the OJ Simpson trial and were angry about the outcome.

If it totally escaped you awareness how decades after the verdict, 95% of the tv shows referenced OJ and ONLY his Black lawyer - never the white ones - as malevolent.

If you’ve ignored how the cops who brutalized Rodney King are now heads of their departments.

If you believe(d) that should Black folk police their own spaces, they’d devolve into chaos.

If you’ve never questioned where guns or drugs come from since there are no poppy fields or smelting stations in Black folk’s backyards or basements.


If after reading ALL of this, you STILL think that you have nothing to confess and that your strength of character alone is enough to combat the systemic narrative

that has deluded the world and given you many of the privileged comforts that you currently enjoy, like your gentrified apt or home

and taking selfies with cops during your pink hat protest. Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. We’re gonna change it all.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ON REPARATIONS

Never banter with white folk about reparations. It’s like arguing with your boss about wages they haven’t paid you. The only acceptable answer, whether they can give it or not, is “Yeah… You right!” Anything less from them is pure toxicity.
Post a Comment
Read more

Rigged Legal System

Search words: Rigged Legal System, Gauntlet of oppression, racial profiling throughout  Years ago on jury duty, I was asked to render a ‘fair and impartial’ judgement regarding a young Black man accused of possession on the Upper East Side. There were only two Black people on the jury, myself and another dude. After a very long time, we ended up finding the defendant guilty. That’s the end of the story but not the narrative. The twelve main things I came to realize: 1. Several Black potential jurors were citing a mantra about their unwillingness to participate in a prejudiced judicial system. It was my first time hearing it but should I be called again, I’ll google it and voice my objection in the same way. 2. The suspect was stopped for a broken taillight, but as his wife said when she examined their car at the station, the light was never broken. 3. The white judge, however, ruled that the bust was still legit even though he was clearly stopped for drivin...
Post a Comment
Read more

WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA CONTROLS THE NARRATIVE

WHOEVER CONTROLS THE MEDIA CONTROLS THE NARRATIVE White cops NEVER leak to the press that they’re now investigating specific members (by name) of the Aryan Brotherhood. When it’s them, the investigation is ALWAYS ongoing. But when it’s us, they ‘leak’ that Sandra was ‘suicidal’, Cyntoia and Mike Brown and Marissa Alexander were ‘no Angels’, Korryn was ‘unstable’, King was a philanderer, Trayvon engaged in ground n pound because he watched ultimate fighting on tv (or how the media runs with his dad saying that the blood-curdling scream heard on the 911 call of a neighbor was NOT his son. The last time we heard our son give a piercing scream was when he was slightly colicky at 3months old!). Or it was leaked that grandma Eleanor Bumpers came at the armed and armored cops with a kitchen knife so they had to shoot during the no-knock raid on the wrong home. Or the leak that Sean Bell shot at cops first on eve before his wedding day. Or the leak that Tawana Brawley did...
Post a Comment
Read more