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Fellow white folks:
Acquiescence = Acceptance = Approval
This time of year is ripe for blowhard dipshits to spew hate at family gatherings. The time is long, long past for us white folks to stand up to this crap.
I understand it is uncomfortable because I have done it and continue to do it whenever
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and wherever the fuckery is happening. Doing so has cost me friendships and altered relationships - familial, personal, professional. I’m ok with that if is the cost of living true to my values and principles. So, yes, it will be uncomfortable to ask Uncle Todd what he means by, “those people.”
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It will be uncomfortable to tell your brother Chad to STFU and quit being a racist moron while watching football for saying, “scholarship” in a mocking, exaggerated AAVE accent. And when grandpa & grandma bemoan drag shows as the decline of western civilization, it will be uncomfortable to tell
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Grandpa Joe that his affair with Marge in 1963 wasn’t the stuff of family values.
I usually address any fuckery like this with a question - “how does this impact you besides not at all?”
You can also utilize the feel/felt/found technique:
“I understand how you feel about illegal immigration, at
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times I have felt the same. But what I’ve found is that the vast majority of those folks love America and are searching for a better life and the data shows most drugs are smuggled through ports of entry by US citizens.”
You also must be willing to set clear boundaries and be willing to walk away.
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Listen to the voices of the black folks in your life. If you don’t have any deep personal relationships irl, that’s ok. Open your heart and listen to the black & brown voices here. They are weary. Exhausted to the bone with generational trauma from centuries of PTSD trying to protect themselves
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and others while finding slivers of joy.
Black women are the heroes of our nation! Not the last election, not the Democratic Party - our nation! From the moment the first enslaved African passed through the Door of No Return at Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle and landed on these shores, black women have
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suffered immeasurably yet bear the greatest responsibility for the success of our nation as it exists at this moment and at every stage in between.
Fuckmerunning, let them rest! Let them rest.
Let us battle. Together. Let us be uncomfortable. Together. Let us stand up to hate. Together.
Peace.
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In response to Puckarama.
My online pal😊thx so much as I appreciate you as well. I’ll definitely start using this platform more. Thx for reminding me- and for your consistency. #music I thought of Saturday lol as I played one of my vinyl albums. 😆 let’s start an online #AlbumsAndVinyls club 😂
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