John Gorman wrote a phenomenal piece that I can’t stop browsing titled, “90 days, 400 years, The Multiple Organ Failure of the American Experiment.” Read it. Read it more than once. Then meditate on his words before you choose which side of the fence you want to be on. It’s not for the faint of heart.
To give up white supremacy means you’re willing to share, play fair, obey rules, and love one another like you love yourselves.
If you can’t see and understand your own racism, you’re not ready for this anti-racism life. The America they have taught you about was a lie. That old country with the bad wig on is dying. It’s taking its last breaths. You helped kill what it was. It’s dead now, it’s time to build a new nation.
Are you down for that?
Are you ready to help rebuild, or are you going to be the white person who keeps something dead with no signs of life on life support? If you are, we don’t need you. You’re not ready to move forward, and that is okay.
Please know we black folks aren’t looking for revenge on white people. We just want peace and justice. This isn’t about comeuppance. If you are the type of white person who consciously or subconsciously believes slaves now want to become the master after they are freed, you are racist. You are the epitome of our broken system. White people, you need to decolonize your mind.
Black people aren’t looking to harm white people. Black people just want to protect our own people. We want our family and friends to be safe and we want white people to treat us as humans, see us when we are hurting, help us when they break us, and heal us so that we can be whole again.
We don’t want everything white people. Please stop thinking so selfishly.
Black people just want some things you have access to in abundance in order to survive and live better. Things you’ve had for much longer than we have. Things that will make the playing field level. Like the power to govern ourselves.
Trust me, white people, we don’t want to compete with white folks. White people are the ones who keep making everything a competition. We just want to live and free from your glare, free from your rule, free from white terror, and free from racism. The cost of being black in America is too damned high and we need a break.
White people you really need to evaluate yourselves, your attitudes about humanity, and reconsider who and what you support. It can be revealing. Some things you support are very racist. You must make better, more thoughtful choices.
If you read my work, you know I’ve always believed that all white people are racist. I don’t say it to be ugly; I say it because it’s the truth. White people don’t want to admit they are racist, so they spend time and energy arguing and deflecting instead of learning about what racism is and investing in anti-racism work.
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