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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It's not so much specific to ant-racism work ... but about WORK in general. Work on the self.
I can't be friends with people who haven't done ANY work on themselves. I can't be friends with people completely unaware of other people's realities. I can't be friends with people who just have no clue of anything outside of themselves. I can't be friends with people completely unaware of the harm they cause. I can't be friends with UNACCOUNTABLE people.
Anti-racism work is just one part of that.
Marginalized folks don't need allies. We need co-conspirators.
@tyghebright afuckinmen ❤️