When ppl are aghast at green card holders being snatched for political statements I think hve ppl forgotten this happens to Black ppl often? Snatched for 100s of reasons. Not deported but imprisoned & disappeared just the same. We all saw George Floyd die. Prisoners released after 50 yrs, innocent
It’s stunning how they had no idea what this would look like. I’m white-passing, and even I knew what it would look like. It’s been somewhat irritating but also somewhat sad to see it finally hit people how bad it is has been and is going to get.
You only have to look at the hair-on-fire replies to elected Democrats to see that the majority of white people who are demanding that someone save them. Same for the large accounts stirring people up...the majority are white people.
White people can no longer ignore what’s been in front of them since this country’s inception. And rather than do more self examination of privilege or even dig further into documented history that’s readily available, too many just say
I have not personally experienced this America but i have read history and worked with folks in inner city areas who are overpoliced and abused by officers—i knew what was coming and i worked hard to keep it from happening.
People don't see it because they refuse to see it, but 'They're eating the dogs' beat 'We will protect your rights to choose and the Affordable Care Act' because people are ok with electing a Birther.
Completely understand this. I was 7yrs old. We moved to a rural TX town. ‘Real America’ was truly awful to the rest of us. You said it perfectly- a true ‘culture shock’.
I think I was 7 the first time I was called a n___ lover. Moved to a rural area. Bullied by farm kids for being too cosmopolitan, it was cruel and brutal.
Lonely and confused.
I never fit in.
Oldest brother - became maga, along with most of the folks from HS.
Big price to pay for being different
Precisely this! I’ve been on the receiving end of racism since I was a child to know how these mother fuckers operate and then how they play innocent when they are told the depths of depravity of their own
The only thing that I think is different now is that the corruption and incompetence used to receive at least a token attempt to be masked and hidden. The racism, sexism, antisemitism, and LGBTQ hate has always been there. But the blatant freak show of incompetence & bumbling fuckery is new.
Yes. But everybody who is"shocked just shocked because people used to be more decent" was living in an imaginary place. They were protected. Privileged.
Definitely. I guess part of me is disappointingly surprised that the rot is as widespread as it is. I wanted to have some hope that there were more decent people than their appear to actually be.
I really do think that the sold out to racism people used to try to hide it from other white people because they thought we were better than we are and we'd try to end it. I think this crapshow shows a lot of us were just waiting to find out it was an option and then eagerly signed up. Ugh.
So it seems like you lack reading comprehension skills because that’s not even close to what I said in this post or in any other post. Have a lovely day.
That is not what she said at all! She is far more aware than the average white persona and is part of Khive who worked to stop this shit from happening
It’s more bc it’s happening to ppl you haven’t been conditioned on the nightly news to view as born criminals. No one’s questioning their character. It’s reminiscent to how the universe shut the world down, made ppl see Amy cooper weaponize her tears against a bird watcher THEN you saw George Floyd
The parts I feel are new or somewhat surprising are not the racism and bigotry. It’s more the unhinged social media posts with all caps and sharing classified information in a group chat while also including a journalist in the group chat. Or writing EOs that sound like they were written by someone
There’s a saying: blk ppl know more about white ppl than they know themselves. The trauma runs generations deep. Maybe now y’all can see the race card never left the table so blk ppl didn’t have to played it. We simply called it out.
And yep def Black Americans worked so hard to speak truth to power and so many who didn’t vote with us spit in our face. Many still are and it is infuriating
Racism is/has been hidden from white people to some extent, and that is by design so we don't work to end it, I think. But now they aren't bothering and a lot of white people are like "wait, we could have been racist all along?! On it!" Sigh.
See, what I don't tell a lot of people is I was seriously abused by just about everyone in my age group in junior high and to some extent in high school, but everyone told me it would get better when I grew up, so I guess I assumed people would grow out of cruelty. Now I think that's who they are.
I thought that meant that as they became adults they'd realize that wasn't okay. I think it means they wanted to keep doing it as adults. And no, I've never gone to a reunion and always found HS reunion media weird, especially ones where the kids were clearly abused and hated. Like they'd return.
That's why I tried to be careful with my phrasing. :) You know where I most identify with Hillary Clinton? Her pausing a moment before she speaks. I do that too because I do try to communicate carefully, and I do need to think about what I say.
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Non-white people know this America intimately.
And many people fail to realize that BP have been here longer than some of them.
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Lonely and confused.
I never fit in.
Oldest brother - became maga, along with most of the folks from HS.
Big price to pay for being different
So if I have you can trust they’ve been vetted like all hell lololol
And since these are such folk that is not shocking
Destruction of media and education will lead to such a product ultimately
Reading lot of Black and Jewish authored books helped explain my life away to me and make me feel less like the crazy one