I talk about cops online, and I have cops hate-following me through their puppet accounts. Sometimes, they reply or DM me.โ๏ธ
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I talk about cops online, and I have cops hate-following me through their puppet accounts. Sometimes, they reply or DM me.โ๏ธ
I talk about GOP politicians, and I have them too. Hi!
I talk about VC bros. So many fleece vests!
For the most part, people are surprisingly reasonable. I'll rant about 10 things, and they'll reply "Mostly fair. But 9 is wrong."
But the 2 things get me the most push back:
* Holding white women accountable for their own actions.
* Advocating for Black women at all.1/N
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
The flip side of "presumption of guilt" when talking about Black men, is "presumption of innocence" when talking about white women.
They're both forms of racism. They both harm Black people.
One is easy to recognise *in other people.* One is hard to see *in ourselves.*
Some people have an emotional reaction when I point out that more than half of all white women voters in the US reliably vote for whichever candidate promises to harm Black people more. They get mad at me for saying this!
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
The US is a very racist country. It has racist systems, processes, and outcomes. That racism harms all of us, but disproportionately harms Black people.
If you want to reduce that racism, you have to understand where it's coming from.
Almost half of that racism, comes from white women. Some of the rest of it comes from white men, but is done in the name of white women.
You cannot effectively combat racism, if you don't understand and accept this.
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
As a Black dude, I gotta say that the dynamic I see is super weird:
1) ~50% of all white men I interact with are super open-minded and inclusive! They want less racism. ๏ธ
2) ~50% of all white women I interact with are super open-minded and inclusive! They want less racism. ๏ธ
3) ~50% of the white men and ~50% of the white women that I interact with are... not super open-minded.
But both the good white men and white women I interact with, are convinced that 3) is 95% men?โ๏ธ
4/N
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
And it's not like ~95% of the white people in New York are open-minded, and ~95% of the white people in Atlanta are not open-minded. That's not how it works.
It's ~50% of the white people in New York are super open-minded, and ~50% aren't.
And it's ~50% of the white people in Atlanta are super open-minded, and ~50% aren't.
And it's not like "this whole family is open-minded, and this whole family is not open-minded." That's not how it works. It's "most families have both."
5/N
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JustAFrogreplied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
@mekkaokereke Many people don't want to accept that women can have negative traits.
So many times I've heard that a woman wouldn't do this or that. Often when talking about a woman who just did.
They're normal people, meaning some of them will be awful. Just like with men.
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
It's super weird to me that it seems like half of the white folk in this country, literally cannot see the other half, even though that's their coworkers, family members, friends, and partners.
It got me thinking: What evidence could you show to the 50% of white folk that are more open-minded, to convince them that the other 50% exists and is about half women? That Black folk are not making this up?
Poll data, viral Karen videos, and lived experience of ~40M Black folk, isn't doing it.
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@justafrog @mekkaokereke There's an interaction here with misogyny and patriarchy.
I was born in the old world of "women are different and [if white] must be protected" and grew up in a world where "women are normal people", i.e. equality, began to be accepted by some people.
Looking at the GOP, it's very clear that equality and women's individual agency (& responsibility) is not yet accepted by anything close to all people. That leads to some serious confusion in society and internally...
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Dinah ๐๐บ๐ฆreplied to Dinah ๐๐บ๐ฆ last edited by
@justafrog @mekkaokereke There is something alluring & safe for white women in the intersection of "I'll be protected" & "I do not have full accountability".
It's a problematic mixture for anyone. We see it also in the behavior of CEOs & other leaders, the famous, & generally among anyone rich.
It breeds a lack of introspection & ownership of your own actions.
Plus along the way to anything bad you cause around yourself, that fucks up your own life by expecting self-protection as a gift.
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Tim Brayreplied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
> cannot see the other half, even though that's their coworkers, family members, friends, and partners.
Maybe the โeven thoughโ is the gap hereโฆ weโre increasingly split into bubblified demographics that live remarkably separate lives. So theyโre not coworkers/family/friends etc, they're other kinds of people living in other neighborhoods, shopping at different stores, watching other shows, etc?