Trigger fingers turn to Twitter fingers

Performative activism is killing my people. I’m actually messing lol, these are not my people. These people don’t like talking about Black lives. These people don’t like being uncomfortable. These people are performative activists. These people are far more concerned with comfortability and performity. Forreal though, ain’t nobody woke. Aren’t mf’s tired of pretending? Twitter fingers is really what’s killing my people.

White people wanna be oppressed so bad. So so so bad. Everyday why can’t I say the n-word? Everyday why can Black people do that and we can’t? Everyday just because I’m not Black I can’t do that? It’s crazy because two plus two isn’t always four. You’re not Black. You might want to be, but you’re not. The lack of progression is exhausting. Ignorance must be exhausting. Everyone is mad that Black people want to treated as equals. Deep it. Cauc-dacity is enabling people to think Black people are reaching, to think what’s BEEN happening for four hundred years is not really the reality of what our people have gone through and will continue to go through. It’s mind blowing to me that people don’t think they’re racist but have been EDL march attendees, but the ground for that conversation is yet to be covered. The sudden ‘concern’ for us as people is really laughable to me because nobody was checking on us when people were calling us niggers, nobody was checking on us when we were being told we’re too black for this, that or the other, nobody was checking on us, periodt. Please leave the pity party at the door before you enter the chat. We've been doing just fine before you decided to post a black square on ig.

The silence from said persons is really deafening. Those with Black friends, those who listen to Black music, and those who appropriate Black culture. To be honest, it’s not overly shocking and not even that disappointing. The description is very fitting. You’ve never stood up for your bredrin, you’ve never asked them they’re alright, you’ve never tried to understand what it is they go through everyday, but it’s white privilege that you think doesn’t exist. When I said that conversations with white people can be redundant, I really did mean that. No accountability but always the reminder that white people have to be oppressed too. KMT.

I truly don’t have anything else to say about this other than I said what I said. Additionally, reparations are taken today via the stream of the City Girls new album, Megan Thee Stallion’s new joint and of course Black Parade by Beyoncé. Any aforementioned reparations are still valid.

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