“Get Your People”
“So, pantsuit nation, what’s up? Over 50% of white women were in the voting booth voting for fascism, rape culture, and just flat out ignorance? What’s clear is that many folks were speaking out of both sides of their necks this election. Talking about #ImWithHer but laying up with him. I mean, color me unsurprised, but that is the real scandal.
I watched my sis Crunktastic drop serious knowledge on BET last night. She mentioned that this moment feels more like the post-Reconstruction era, where Black codes became Jim Crow laws that legally mandated separate but (un)equal civic spaces for people of color and whites. I turned to my homegirl on the couch and we both said, in unison, “This is the nadir of Black life.” Black and Brown people are always the collateral damage when white supremacy feels threatened and flexes. Yesterday’s election was a clarion call for undercover and not so undercover white supremacists to hold onto their power by any means necessary.
So if I see another person fix their face to call out Black folk or even third party voters (except for Libertarians because, really sis?), I will scream.
White people did this. White men and white people. Black women showed up and showed out at the polls — as always ready to save the nation from the very worst of itself and always the first to be blamed for damn near everything.
Not today, Satan.”
A white person “getting” another white person for me is one of the most real and loving and useful pieces of allyship in my experience (a tip if you are a white person reading this and thinking about allyship).
There is a lot of labor that white people have historically sloughed off. Racial equality should properly be the responsibility of the people who maintain and are the beneficiaries of the systems of racial inequality; why am I constantly being told to pull myself out of the hole that someone else dug and pushed me into?
And, like, if I just ask you to stop digging holes that’s suppression of free speech, and people even get salty if I just want them to acknowledge that I’m in a hole.
related: “Two white women launch ‘White Nonsense Roundup’ to unburden people of color (VIDEO)”
