[ID: Tweet by ☭ nonessential government oils ☭ @BabadookSpinoza from January 20, 2019 at 3:37 PM that reads: People aren’t racist because they lack education or intelligence. They’re racist because being racist makes them feel good. The solution is not education but to make racism so socially unacceptable and harshly punished that being racist makes your life fucking miserable. End ID]
this is terrifying. 31 Patriot Front people were in a uhaul wearing riot gear. Attomwaffen and 3 percenters made a guest appearance and were holding signs saying “groomers not welcome in idaho.”
Some comrades from Portland also got arrested. theyre 200 short on a hotel room once they get out.
“Anti-racism work isn’t a one-and-done type of deal. It’s a lifelong learning process. It’s only natural that you’ll make mistakes, feel burnt out, or just question why everything feels so difficult all the time.
And the truth is that if you’re feeling this way, then that’s good – it means that you’re constantly pushing yourself to understand the ways in which white supremacy is an incredibly violent system.
But feeling those kinds of emotions isn’t necessarily good for you personally. What I mean is that your hurt, guilty, or angry feelings are valid. And you need to have room to deal with those feelings in a constructive way.
Unfortunately, you dealing with those feelings by unloading or processing with People of Color can do more harm then good.
When you work through these feelings with a Person of Color, it can be silencing to the emotions that we are feeling.
People of Color should not have to listen to your feelings about racism. Having to do so forces us to put aside our own complex emotions. It is also exhausting – because intentionally or not, you unloading on a Person of Color says, “My having to face my whiteness and the complex emotions that come with that is more important then the ways in which whiteness is a tool of violence against you.”
