If that's what you're looking for to stay in this fight against brutality, murder and inequality, then you might as well take your ball and go home. So prove Harriot right, won't you please, because some of us don't have much time for distractions such as your speech policing and interruption of an article that strikes at the heart of the matter. Now we talk about you and your feelings of marginalization by the black people with whom you ally. But did you read BLM's statement and Beliefs before trying to insert yourself? Do you realize they offer other ways that you can be helpful? Did you read the statement of purpose for This Group that's not about you?
I appreciate your alignment with our cause and that you enjoy this group. But I find your comments are from the sick power base of which you are a part of and, for me, it is emotionally violent. And I will definitely add a little vinegar with suggestions to help you make your stand one way or another to either play hard though you get no honey or go home because of some vinegar. Because I toke umbrage at you, an ally, who has his/her own facts and claims that as a Caucasian you're not allowed to speak but yet clearly has, though another white ally poster was thankful for the same article. As a black woman, That's the ally I'd align with because he/she has gone well past the stage of bargaining to control how we speak in our own literature on a black site, into acceptance of what reality for us is and, by extension, humanity as a whole.
If you had read, your words, the so-called bullshit links, written by white brethren who I believe is an ally, you'd at least begin to understand the distrust you've garnered from me and understand what I think is your misplaced resentment of the attention-seeking title - got your attention and thank you, Harriot. But no, you're looking for honey from all of us - Not today and not from all of us.
So in a nutshell, I think that taking your activism to a higher level to stop unconsciously afflicting the afflicted in seeking comfort with your awesome tone policing advice would be a welcome relief to so many of us who have had basta with your feelings as we try to remain free from harm. Yeah, believe it, that is indeed more vinegar.
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