4. Increase your exposure to black activists & intellectuals, especially black feminists on social media so next time something like this emerges, you’ll be part of the convo from the start. I recommend: @ProfessorCrunk @rgay @divafeminist @RaquelWillis_ @dreamhampton to start
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Addendum: I want to respond to the multiple folks who have mentioned to me their fear of speaking against a black man as a white person & their fears of being
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Is your fear of being called racist stronger than your desire to fight for black women and girls? Is your allyship about not appearing racist or about fighting injustice?
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Many who have expressed this anxiety are folks I respect & consider on my “side” in the grand scheme of making this world better, but I think it’s worth exploring how liberal white guilt can impede action.
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Many of the folks with this concern are people I’ve seen be vocal about sexual violence by white men so choosing to not be vocal about sexual violence by black men, leaving that to black women only (even as we speak out against sexually violent white men too) is concerning.
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Your place is on the side of justice & if someone says “you’re being racist against this black man” you can pull all your receipts of continued engagement with
#MeToo
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There are also ways we can speak out against this violence without demonizing perpetrators, by acknowledging the complexities of multiply marginalized lives & our own vexed positions, while still insisting that what’s wrong is wrong.
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When you fear being called out/in more than doing/saying what you know is right (but maybe not knowing the best way to do it), complicity and complacency win over. I hope white allies read this as a call in, a conversation among comrades to challenge each other to be better.
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I hope you would each do the same for me when I fuck up or miss the mark. Because I do. I will again. We have to be in this together, not for our reputations, not for appearance, but for actual radical change to
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#rkellydocumentary#rkellylifetime#StandWithBlackWomen#BelieveBlackGirls#BelieveBlackWomen#MeToo
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