This is a video of ABSOLUTELY painful truths that I don't think a lot of white people think enough about. This spells things out SO beautifully and has some mouth dropping phrases that manage to clarify so much.
This was a powerful watch of absolute FACTS.
I don't use the word friendship often. I'm rarely friends with people. I have a lot of acquaintances and not a lot of friends. My definition of friendship is too complicated for most.
This video is great at partially explaining why.
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@thewebrecluse I absolutely love that she said every word of that.
I could _not_ treat my BIPOC friends the same way as my other friends, because if I did, it could put my BIPOC friends in peril, social career, emotional and physical.
My white friends don't face systemic and overt racism against them every day.
My BIPOC friends don't need someone to complain to over beers that they faced racism today, they need someone to stand with them and have their back, and make it _their problem too_.