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Anti-Black Behavior Is Not Exclusively White
When Black women point out their struggles on social media, you’ll usually see at least one if not more non-white women of color pointing out those struggles are not solely Black women struggles as “they’ve had this happen to them”.
Engaging in “oppression olympics” is a current trend online. However, while women of color can experience similar marginalization, there is an anti-Black undercurrent and Black people are the sole recipients. When it’s a Black women, it’s worse because the misogynoir just ekes out of people.
This is why Black women point out that women of color being targeted by white people is not the same as being targeted by white, people of color and even Black people who are purging their toxic self-hate by attacking what they perceive as a failure of their people personified in one or more Black bodies.
Was It Really Over Food?
A clear and recent example is Natasha Tynes and her anti-Black, misogynoir behavior against a Black women who transgressed by…eating in uniform. She, after being told “worry about yourself” by the Black women, tweeted her complaint with a photo of the Black woman attached and tagged…
