I’m Black So That Makes Me The Authority On What’s Racist And What’s Not

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There’s no other way for me to state this. If you are not Black, you cannot say what’s racist and what’s not. You certainly can’t tell me what’s racist and what’s not. And it’s actually offensive for you to tell me if what happened to me personally was racist or not.

Why? Because racism and anti-Blackness are experienced by Black people in ways that are unique to us.

We live it everyday, so we know when it’s happening. It does not have to make any sense to you.

Not only have you never experienced anti-Blackness, but you perpetrate it, yes you, so how are you going to acknowledge it, when you won’t even admit when you do it yourself?

It takes a lot of caucasity (that’s white audacity) for a white person to try to school a Black person about racism and micro-aggressions (a new fancy term for day-to-day racism).

A LOT!

I don’t want to hear about your experience with so-called reverse racism (that’s Black people being racist — which is impossible.)

I don’t want to hear how you’re white and the same thing happened to you.

Spare me.

I don’t care.