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All Skinfolk Ain’t Kinfolk…But Leave It To Our Community
Stop Giving People Passes
Is it really that hard to attack, call out someone without attacking their marginalized identity? Apparently so for quite a few people, and that says something about what you notice and feel is a negative more than anything else. Too many ignore racism, anti-Blackness, misogynoir, sexism, xenophobia, when it’s aimed at someone they don’t like. Suddenly, all of it becomes acceptable.
How Are You Different?
Say a Black man supports Trump and is right-wing conservative. He may have conversations with white people in his circle who constantly attack Black people who protest while simultaneously praising him because he’s not “like those Blacks” and he allows it. Because, hey, he doesn’t like them either. He doesn’t see the racism, or he chooses to ignore it because it’s both directed at someone he hates and he is trying to maintain and increase his power and economic success. So, it’s fine.
Same could be said for many of you who praise someone (white or non-Black) for attacking a Black person who supports Trump. Because you do not like a person does not mean you allow…
