I'm not done yet.
I have been DMd tonight because I am upsetting white people and it's not comfortable.
Good
GOOD.
We should be upset and uncomfortable.
I don't know how else to get people to understand that this is not something to ignore.
Be uncomfortable.
I remember sitting my mom down with a bottle of bourbon at the kitchen table and after she took her first shot I said, "You're racist. And you raised me racist."
My mom said, "I am NOT."
I said, "Do you remember telling me that Quarterbacks are white because intelligence is needed?"
*Poured a shot*
My mom- I never said that.
Me- Yes. You did. Remember telling me that ____ was good looking for a Black man?
Mom- I never said that and if I did it was because it was true."
Mom? That's racist.
If my mom could grow up and understand safely then there's no excuse for any white person here to deny safety
Or block me.
I really don't get upset by that.
Shovel another shot at my mom
My mom- "But they look like monkeys. They can't be real people. You don't understand what Black people looked like before you were born!"
Me- shoving another shot over.
"That's bullshit. And you believe it. I don't know what to think about you now. "
My mom came undone.
And in her 70s she did the work.
My mom died at 87 a white person doing the work with her people.
I don't want to hear Generation trash.