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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Me either. Black men (and even women) absolutely cannot get visibly angry anywhere near a white woman for fear of tears flowing and having to hear, "I'm feeling really uncomfortable right now." Everything stops and you are automatically a fucking evil pariah, no matter what the fuck she said or did.
I always knew this subconsciously (and obviously it's become a thing people are aware of recently), but explicitly tying it to white women's complicity with violence to black bodies throughout US history was something maybe I was trying to avoid realizing--most likely because my first wife is white and I probably tried to push those types of thoughts way down deep for so many years.*
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She mentions Emmet Till and it’s immediately an “of course” but it is what white men will do in reaction to white women's tears that is the real issue.
Anyway, it made me think about marching with local Black Lives Matter activists (and others) after Jamar Clark was killed by the police and some trash shot at protesters. Probably shed a tear or two that day. Was that unhelpful? (Obvs not a white woman).
That day I locked arms, at her initiation, for a bit with a young black woman (I took for an East African immigrant), who asked if I’d have been there but for the subsequent shooting. I said no (it wasn’t my first trip to the protest but I likely wouldn’t have been marching) and wonder what that answer meant to her. Like, I only care when it’s literal white supremisists shooting at innocents protesters? Probably woulda been helpful if I had more than a passing relationship, with her.
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