Are you pro-Black or just pro-Black d*ck?
It’s increasingly difficult to find safe spaces as a Black woman- no matter where you turn. For starters, we’ve got white girls who believe they are enlightened ready to talk over and down to us on feminist issues that they co-opted from us (intersectionality for example).
I had a (white female) coworker who dated outside her race, proclaimed that Black Lives Matter all over her social media and spoke out against racism. She was from Alabama and not that bright- to be fair. But she changed her profile picture to a picture of herself embracing an indigenous child on a trip to Brazil. It was a beautiful picture and when I asked her what tribe the child is from- she could not tell me anything. I told her it’s fucked up to use Black and brown people as her props for photos but not know anything meaningful about the people. It’s giving white savior. I told her to check herself- she fought back and told me to check MYself and started to go in on me for calling her out. I was stunned at the caucasity, but never spoke to her again.
Facebook and LinkedIn are rampant with mediocre white men inserting their unsolicited opinions on every post that doesn’t center whiteness. LinkedIn is particularly getting out of control- with fragile white men starting fights with Black women who are clearly the subject matter expert and trying to discredit us. And we have to…
