I know we Black folks have vowed to step back because our white brothers and sisters decided to elect Trump again, but uh, I don't think White America is built to combat this current administration.
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You are correct. As a Black man born and raised in America, I know we're built for the fight, but we know, as sure as death, taxes, and racism that we won't get the help and protection we need.
The time will come for us to enter the fray. Now isn’t the time. If we go in half cocked Trump will declare martial law and even our liberal and leftist white brothers will stand by and do nothing. When we see white bodies out there taking blows, when it becomes THEIR fight, then we join.
Kinda funny that generations raised on tales of heroic exploits that would bolster you for shit like this are silent. "It can't happen here!" Well, it is. And it has been. And that's why we're so fucking numb to it.
Exactly. People don't think that type of shit would happen in real life because it's too out there. Which is exactly why it's happening. Shit is so outlandish and outside logic is why it needs to be taken seriously.
It's been stochastic terrorism ever since 1/20. Know that he will definitely try to make things worse, as will his followers. Unity is needed now more than ever, and that means standing up for everyone. Because what persecution he'll try for one group is a test run for everyone else.
The ship is going down in shark infested waters. Covering yourself in blood and rushing to be eaten first to save people discomfort who have never saved you even a seat a wobbly table seems unwise
It's sad and stupid that the survival of democracy falls, once again, onto the shoulders of the very people who were enslaved and murdered while being forced to build the country they're now forced to save.
I do. Don’t worry. They avoid me now. But I speak truth, always. And I’m totally OK with them finding out, because they won’t learn it any other way. Believe me, I’ve tried. So hard.
Your actual ‘white’ brothers and sisters didn’t vote for him. That was that other group of ‘white’ people. And they are not built to combat this. Not sure any of us are alone - but together…
Bc they would have to be willing to fight EACH OTHER. White women would have to stand up to white men. Poor white people would have to rise up against rich white people, whom they idolize and use as “proof” of the supremacy of whiteness. Whites in MSM would have to call bad actors out, and so on…
Yep. We're expected to be on the front lines each and every time, and when it comes up that they can return the favor? We're paid dust. That's an abusive relationship tbh.
i really have doubts 😭😭
the cesspool of facebook is full of a bunch of white people screeching about how good of a job elon is doing and that you only dislike it if you’re corrupt. 🙃
they’re children left behind
The truth is, at the end of the day, their privilege will keep them safe. And with that being known, being quite and simply waiting to see what happens is their plan. They may be broke and hungry. Sick and uneducated. But alive in the new America.
It’s going to require physical resistance to stop the coup, authoritarian take over. Congress nor court cases will stop this murderous criminal pu tin plan. Ppl have to stop it.
Wypipo too scared/privileged to acknowledge it requires a physical response.
Black ppl won’t risk our lives for racists.
Of the whites who didn’t vote for Trump, I’d guess 30% can’t believe it [fascist coup] could really happen here; 30% are avoiding news/social media because it’s “too depressing”; and 30% are calling their elected officials. I fear last estimate is too high and first two are thus too low.
I avoid news for small stretches of time every day, that is a very healthy and necessary thing, but I can't imagine avoiding it entirely!!! That's ridiculous!!!
everyone must do what is best for them. we aren't walking in their shoes so we don't know why they're there, right? when they're ready, they'll likely seek it out again. also,
they may be doing other things like keeping tabs on the House or any number of things.
I think all non-Trump voting whites believed a coup could happen because they saw the first try on Jan 6.
Planning to print flyers the next day or two and put up around town. 🤷🏼♀️
What can we do realistically? This isn’t rhetorical, I’m actively looking for ideas. I can’t see any way to make a tangible change and it’s really hard to do when you have no idea who your enemies are.
Your overall point is valid, but the bit about Charlottesville is off. The overwhelming majority of puchback was local, though BLM chapters from NY and Philly were present too. Problem was, the Nazis came from everywhere east of the Mississippi, and not enough ppl took the warnings seriously prior.
I don’t believe in a god given Vanguard-ie, people destined to lead a movement. But I do believe that Black Americans will be a critical part of a vanguard, and evangelizing to the people who don’t like us for whatever reason will be important.
Yeah, I’ve been saying this since BLM marches. Although I think it’s 30/30/30. 30% apathetic, 30% Nazis/sympathizers, 30% progress (imperfect though it may be). I can’t remember where I saw it, but it was “the country isn’t divided, white people are”. I think Obama and the fact that there were 1/
white people at BLM marches, made it clear to conservatives that there were enough white “turncoats” to form a multiracial majority. But yeah, it’s a third of us, I don’t think we can or should count on more than that.
i'm not trying to save it any more either
too late for that
let it burn down, survive through it collapsing and whomever is left on the other side, rebuild it better
This and has always been The Problem. As a union mentor once said, "Racism is a white people problem," but as Baratunde Thurston once said (paraphrasing), when white people try to fix racism, we inevitably screw it up because we don't know what we're doing.
Disagree. Yt people don't fix racism because they don't want to. They don't want to compete with Black people and they certainly don't want to elevate them in recognition of past and systematic inequities. Talk candidly with friends, family, neighbours and face the truth.
I want to fix racism. I really do. And I know that means giving up white privilege. And know that giving it up will be a shock that I literally cannot imagine right now. And I want to end racism anyway.
I agree, Black people can not fix this country! We’ve tried, we tried for 150 years and here we are fighting against an administration filled with white nationalists!
We need to make ourselves useful in our white ally's efforts to reach their lost brothers and sisters. that doesn't mean we need to be out front though.
Deep, deep belief in Both Sides Are Just as Bad and All People Are at Their Base Good are two things that are going to be very very hard to pry out of some people's brains.
Because we’re idiots, we have not suffered at all from prior white led government so have no frame of reference of what is coming. We believe the discomfort we occasionally experience is unbearable compared to those who have been marginalized. It can’t happen here because we’re white.
Speaking for myself: we don’t know what to do? We don’t want to storm the Capitol; we’re calling representatives daily; some of us are demonstrating and going to their offices. Some are planning boycotts. Most want to do things we can’t post . But we don’t know how to be effective.
they have tiny spines and are frail like pink knitted pussycat beanies-they seem to think protests are simply one day events. they told me they were afraid to go out on #NationalStrike because they could lose their jobs and now they lost their jobs and power
The George Floyd protests showed white America the police will assault/maim & turn a blind eye to them being killed while protesting too so, I feel like that’s coming home to roost now. White bodies on the front line didn’t/doesn’t mean shit now. They’ve effectively deputized all the Rittenhouses
so, anybody can get it. Whiteness isn’t gonna protect ppl from fascism if they fight it. Vance said they’re fighting ‘the left’ while in Europe & he means that. I’m white in a small town. In 2015, I said it wouldn’t be long till just having voted Dem would make us targets. Now, that doesn’t mean
anyone marginalized won’t be affected first or worse. We know how that’ll go. I’m not mad ppl got out to protest in 2020, I just wish 5 yrs hadn’t passed b/c, you’re right, ppl are afraid.
I've had my account for about a little less than two days now. Been talking about and pointing out racism the entire time. It took these people two days to consider that and only that enough to block me. Nah. They aren't ready. Not even close.
We need to organize our own social and economic systems and prepare a defense for our people when these crackkkas come for us like they did here 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
I did not vow to step back because no matter who tf morons voted for I’m still a citizen of this country and my disenfranchised friends still need a helping hand and a yelling voice.
I always say yt Americans have no “natural predators” here in America, so they have absolutely no idea how to react to real threats and mostly walk around oblivious to them.
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A few cracks are showing but not enough for me to take as actual realisation.
https://bsky.app/profile/kissedbythesun.bsky.social/post/3lj2hcoxffk2f
the cesspool of facebook is full of a bunch of white people screeching about how good of a job elon is doing and that you only dislike it if you’re corrupt. 🙃
they’re children left behind
Wypipo too scared/privileged to acknowledge it requires a physical response.
Black ppl won’t risk our lives for racists.
they may be doing other things like keeping tabs on the House or any number of things.
Planning to print flyers the next day or two and put up around town. 🤷🏼♀️
Nothing I saw in natl news / Sunday news shows .. but they covered Charlottesville when nazis marched there - with no local hard pushback.
MSM didn’t want to .. what ? What are they afraid of?
10% want it all to burn down and 20% will go along with it thinking they'll be fine.
white people as a whole wont save this shit
too late for that
let it burn down, survive through it collapsing and whomever is left on the other side, rebuild it better
For what that's worth. Which might not be a lot.
The both sides are bad I’ll vote for the other Russian asset people threw us under the bus
That's a lost cause.
And, I don't know why this is so hard for us to do, at least I cannot theorize on it in this small of a post. 😫
And, this is no time for theory, at least not the armchair kind.
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Sorta like the now extinct Dodo bird.