“Nice“ white women in my experience will call you their sister, then throw you under the bus as easy as a yoga exhale.
Eradicate the fallacy that internalized racial prejudice makes you BAD.
Pretending you don’t have it makes you GOOD.
This dichotomy prevents progress on our internal racism.
Eradicate the fallacy that internalized racial prejudice makes you BAD.
Pretending you don’t have it makes you GOOD.
This dichotomy prevents progress on our internal racism.
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"Nice is different than good."
"You're so...nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice. I'm not nice, I'm not good, I'm just right. I'm the Witch; you're the world." (Sung by a woman of color.)
The insidious irony is that being a nice lady means you allow yourself behavior towards others, but most especially Black women, that is the antithesis of nice.