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Jason Lei Howden: How Dare You?
Black Women and Women Of Color Are Always Targets For Fragile Racists
This is jumping at a point where hopefully many of you already have an inkling about what’s going on. But quick recap.
A person, it was discovered, used a racial slur in the past, that and other accusations resulted in their staff quitting en masse. This person was called out for their actions, but also bullied viciously by others and attempted suicide.
Jason Lei Howden, director of “Guns Akimbo” attacked everyone, including the writers for holding said person accountable.
Then he lied and accused ValerieComplex on Twitter of being a party to the bullying as well. She was not.
Seeing this, I jumped in to defend her and call out his simplistic take on the incident and, as my anger at it all grew, wrote a piece detailing the unfairness of being a Black person, person of color, continually asked to remain silent, to not get angry or upset when we are targets of white aggression and marginalization.
Now, let’s begin. I am nonbinary, but due to the fact that Jason targeted me because he sees me as a woman (as do most people who come at me) this will be about my perspective as it relates to Black women, women of color.
