black people's resilience needs to be a bigger deal
jews talk about being slaves in ancient egypt and survivors of the holocaust
black americans survived 400 years of documented, brutal slavery and subjugation and are still alive. that doesn't happen by accident. there is nothing to be ashamed of for fighting for hundreds of years and surviving to live to this day.
there is a lot of power in us and the more we recognize we are just as human and treat each other with dignity, the faster we can ensure our success as a people.
c00ns need to die and opportunists need to as well. we can't keep hating ourselves to appease people who have never seen us or our bodies as human. they derive entertainment from us, we keep sacrificing our bodies - sacred as they are, to these people...for what? approval? what would that get us?
an entire generation of black people were destroyed through drugs and violence and we are just now, barely, recovering. one of us becomes president and we can't even empathize with his plight and the significance of his actions. we are not a monolith but we ought to at least act in simpatico.
if just half of the black people in the US knew their history, the way we interact with each other and our circumstances would shift significantly. i can't, for example, PAWG anymore knowing that that person's grandpa was alive to see black men lynched for smiling at a white woman or was one of the kids telling negroes they're not welcome to a school or to drink from another fountain. that was less than a century ago. people are still alive from that era. our grandmas and grandpas went through hell for us and we're out here shaking our asses for white people and letting them call us nikkers. then what the fukk was the entire point of grandma and them getting beaten and lynched?