It seems it’s time for a public service announcement once
again. If a person of color tells you
that something is racist or offensive, it is not your role, job, responsibility
or position to tell them that it’s not.
Understand this, the very nature of you telling a person of color what
is or is not offensive or racist is . . . follow me closely on this . . . the
very definition of racism. You do not
get to dictate the conversation of race.
You cannot say, “Jeez, stop being so sensitive, it wasn’t meant to be
offensive,” or, “you’re the one perpetuating racism by talking about it all the
time,” because you are being racist by negating the fact that the person of
color has more knowledge, understanding, and intimate experience with what encompasses
racism. Your infantile need to silence people of
color who are speaking out about racism is . . . say it with me . . . racist.
I know, I know, you created racism. Shit white people invented and refined that
shit down to a science. You want to define
it; you want to control it. I get that
you want to have the last word on everything that involves race because it is your
own very diseased fallacy of white supremacy that created the systems of
oppression, bigotry, and racism. You
feel entitled to silence any of those uppity Negroes who have the unmitigated
audacity to tell you what’s racist. But,
unfortunately, you don’t get to tell any person of color what is racist. You see, you got racism on lockdown. You are the reigning champions of it, that’s
indisputable. But when it comes to
dismantling it, when it comes to ending the historic and institutionalized
systems that you put in place, which you benefit from daily, it’s us outspoken
and angry Black people (you know, the people you refer to as niggers in
private) who get to have the last word.
It hurts your feelings. It makes
you mad. But you are going to have to
deal with it because we will not be silenced by your arrogance; we will not
back down in the face of your ignorance.
Sincerely,
The omnipresent angry black chick
P.S. Please feel free to substitute the concepts of men
dictating what is sexist, heterosexuals deciding what is homophobic, cis-people
controlling the conversation of transphobia, and skinny people asserting they
know more about sizism than fat people.
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