It is
WRONG
that the men involved in killing George Floyd were not immediately
ARRESTED and CRIMINALLY CHARGED
for their crimes. That is
FUCKING unacceptable.
That is racism.
When a white woman
weaponizes
her race and gender to try to get a black man
arrested, beaten, killed,
that’s fucking racism.
I’m a white woman, and I fuck up a lot at life. I make mistakes. And I acknowledge that I have privilege as a white woman that not everyone is lucky enough to have. Sometimes I say things without thinking. And I find talking about people of color and the shit they go through hard because I worry about saying the wrong thing.
But I have a tiny platform. And people I respect who know a fuckton more about race relations than I do, or who have much larger audiences than I do, are telling people like me (white women, white men) that it’s no longer okay to just not contribute to racism, and I fucking agree.
So here’s the politics.
I am ANTI-RACISM.
Black lives matter.
Our President in 2020 is a racist, fascist idiot, and I hope you all work to get him the
I know it’s not enough to simply proclaim these things. I’ll work on that.
I don’t know what else to say or what else to add. Any commentary about this can go on Twitter – you can find me there: @nivixious or @growingupwalls