Example: They tried to run a purity test on sis months ago. My question was simple: who paying the bills? I don’t know her from a can of paint. But the audacity of an internet stranger to tell someone walk off their job…
As a white guy, I keep telling folks who say ‘this isn’t America’ that it isn’t ‘our America’. It has been Black America’s experience for much of our history.
White folks couldn’t hack what is business as usual for black folks.
I get this in the context of the justice purity discussion. But as a standalone, yikes! I’d counter that the number one responsibility is collective survival. That includes taking care of our material needs but also strategic resistance.
Fascism only sees warm bodies for their use and abuse. Black, Brown, white, 2-tone. Young, old whomever they deem useable. Fascism (an equal opportunity hater) will visit indiscriminately, with righteousness and a distorted Trump Bible in their gleeful hand.
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White folks couldn’t hack what is business as usual for black folks.