come chat and vibe and vent. hows the first week into black history month treating you? how are you celebrating/ learning? any cool black history info that you wish was more well known?
come chat and vibe and vent. hows the first week into black history month treating you? how are you celebrating/ learning? any cool black history info that you wish was more well known?
I'm getting better at talking about my experiences as a black person without shame. Or rather, I'm better seeing white discomfort and continuing with what I'm saying.
It's realizing I'm not being the problem or trauma dumping or whatever. My experience is valid and just because someone else doesn't understand that I need to consider more for my personal safety doesn't make me a downer. I'm not the one who should feel bad when I bring up that something is racist.
It doesn't feel like much to me, but I'm starting to realize it's not me, it's the white liberals in my life.
Oh yeah fuck their feelings tbh. These days I only hang with white people who aren't fragile.
Yeah, don't hang out with white people that bristle at you mentioning race.
White and non-white people should learn to get used to it at this point; it's a huge topic and we don't stop being Latino or Black or whatever at the drop of a hat.
Oh full stop. I'm just looking to move and never see these roommates/social circle again. I'm done navigating around their feelings on the meantime.
Talk about it whenever you want.
Nobody should stop you.
Edit: I mean, I'm supporting this of you, is what I'm trying to say.
Sorry if the original comment came off as rude; I mean that, as someone that is non-white or Black, you should definitely speak up whenever you want or need to as someone of your race and maybe give a perspective from that angle.