White people don't get to tell black people how to feel about racism.
You don't get to dismiss our struggles and experiences.
You don't get to put us down, but when we talk about black girl beauty, come in screaming "All girls are beautiful".
You don't get to tell us the N word is "just a word" because it isn't.
You don't get to tell us that our reclamation of it is racist, because it's not.
You don't get to claim Intersectional Feminism but have the luxury of not seeing color.
You don't get to call the Black Panthers "a black version of the KKK". That hurts me to even write that. Knowing black people's history with the KKK, I can't without write that without being in my feelings.
You don't get to tell us that institutionalized racism is not real.
You don't get to tell us that Trayvon Martin was in the wrong.
You don't get to stereotype anybody who doesn't look like you, but when somebody calls you "Becky", you cry racism.
You don't get to tell us that racism doesn't exist anymore.
You don't get to tell us that blackface isn't wrong.
You don't get to call a black person in cornrows "thugs" then turn around and get "Kim K braids".
I feel like America is still a broken nation, the deep undertone of hate and racism haven't left. The need to line their pockets at the expense of people's lives is so hurtful. And I don't know what I can do about. Who's going to listen to a black girl who's trying to call herself an activist?
Nobody wants to talk about the hate that people are facing.
YOU ARE READING
Sincerely, A Black Girl #Wattys2018
No Ficción~Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -Elie Wiesel ~Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. - Benjamin Franklin One black girl's...
