This is psychological torture for white people. (x)
Remind me again how Black people are too sensitive because I swear that’s what they keep telling me whenever I get upset at the justice system for railroading people who look like me or the media for the way they talk about the Obamas or our legislators for pandering to constituents who would still vote for Jim Crow laws. I’m too sensitive when those things upset me but this is psychological torture for white people.
If you’re white and you can’t take this lil piece of reflection from an anonymous messageboard, you would not last six hours as a Black person in America. I get worse than this from people in positions of power as soon as I turn on the television. I had to watch My First Lady being called a man by actual political commentators with an audience of millions. The sitting President of the United States is endorsed by the KKK, a terrorist group that has killed thousands of Black people. But a few pieces of paper that simply call for white folks to recognize our humanity, treat us as equals, and stop ignoring the effects of history is psychological torture.
“Psychological torture?”
Kids in Pakistan fear sunny days, as they know that drones can fly and take the lives of their relatives and playmates.
Kids in the U.S. know that because they are Black, Latinx, and/or Native, the police can shoot them for any reason and face ZERO consequences.
Kids in Canada and the UK face racial violence regularly.
But please, tell me more about how white people face “psychological torture” from comments on a board that could never be used to tear into the flesh of a white person without warning, anesthesia, or consequences.
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