on a daily basis. You voted to make POC and other marginalized groups incredibly leery and mistrusting of so many White people. How can we ever repay you? To the White LGBTQ folx who also voted for racism, you should be 1000% ashamed of yourselves for selling the rest of us out. You made everything worse for Trans folx. You
world. You weakened us. You made us even more vulnerable to domestic terrorism. See, here’s the thing, POC and other marginalized folx know how to function, survive, and often thrive under the blanket of oppression. Our very existence is a revolutionary act. We will be fine. We will come together in solidarity because you
made everything worse for queer people of color. You made it worse for undocumented LGBTQ folx. You made everything worse for everyone. You didn’t think about the global ripples of having an unqualified leader of what used to be the strongest nation in the
all clearly showed us that we have a shared oppressor. For all of you wellmeaning White folx who didn’t believe us when we said racism, Transphobia, xenophobia, and all other types of oppression and hatred are real, I have no time for your tears or your apologies.
What you need to do is get to work on understanding your Whiteness as an identity. You need to recognize Whiteness as a system of oppression that bears down on the lives of so many people and communities. You all have so much work to do. And please don’t ask for our help. We’ve been trying to help you all get it for years. I’m tapped out, folx. My energy has to be directed to my solidarity with others and my own safety and the safety of the people I love the most in this world. And don’t bother with the “but not all White people.” Folx certainly don’t add that caveat about Muslims. Or Black folx or Latinx people. Or Trans folx. You can no longer hide from what it truly means to be White in Amerikkka. You all created this, now you have to deal with it.
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