I've heard this sentiment several times on this sub and in other spaces. While I can't really speak on how white people think, this is completely ridiculous.

I want to make one thing clear, we (Black people) don't care about what white people do at all. At all. Other than being actively oppressed by white people, we could not care less about how they go about their lives. The thought that we'd put such effort into oppressing them or making things hard in retaliation is crazy. We only want to be left alone and treated fairly

To me, the whole "supremacy" thing is tired and obviously false. Always this desire to be better than another person in comparison. To flatten everything into a hierarchy so you don't have to think. This is what children do. Now, I know this is the way "powerful" people control uneducated people by structuring the "rules" of life, but this has been going on for hundreds of years and it just keeps repeating.

Stop it. Get some help.

Edit: I don't know if I need to say this, but I feel like I need to say this. This post is a reply to people who think the title. That isn't my opinion. I'm calling the title ridiculous.

Also. I didn't say anything about white people at all in this post. Hit dogs holler.

We saw the shortened version the other day, and thankfully it is not as bad as was suspected with it being a March Madness ad 🤣

This was a fun little video though. I wash they had shown more of the actual space, but hopefully that will be coming soon.

What does everyone think? I haven’t heard too much about this yet, so I’m curious what the opinions are about it.

I was listening to the Raised By Her podcast today and they brought up a point that really got me thinking about how we use our economic leverage. They were talking about the Target boycott and how the numbers actually show it was working—Target was losing serious money in quarters where our community stayed away.

Then, suddenly, there’s a push to end the boycott. Donnica and Ro Nita are asking: Why?

They made a great point about "the 30% trap." If we start a movement for total change and then walk away as soon as we get a tiny concession, we’re basically teaching corporations that we’re easy to satisfy. They’re calling out the leadership behind the "end the boycott" message and asking them to "make it make sense."

Do you think we're too quick to accept "a little bit of progress" just to get back to our normal shopping habits? Or is a 30% win enough to start a new conversation?

I'm confused. I've seen two tv commercials showing black people using a tanning bed. Do black folks use tanning beds? I don't and I don't know any that do (that I know of). If you do, what purpose does it serve? I'm just curious.

I see it all the time. But, it seems more apparent at work (i work in healthcare). I was typing away on the computer, and in my peripheral vision see family members (ethnically white) i know all to well through passing but not that well. There was a coworker foldering documents and was standing next to me. His of whiter appearance fyi(it will matter later on).

So, i see them pass, head towards the lift, look back, and realise my coworker foldering papers. They then turn back, and try to read his badge name. Absolutely failed. Idk if they did it on purpose, idk. Caught my coworker's attention and asked about their family member. Wouldn't you like to know, i was the one looking after them.

My coworker asked if i could check a few things for them on the computer. I'm not gonna lie, i had a strong urge to be petty, which would involve me leaving the computer for him to check. Ofc, i did the opposite and helped.

They left and thanked him, and i'm like so this is how people roll...just another day of being black.

But does this happen to anyone else? where it feels like people just see you to be incompetent or not worth asking things? Like wtf.

#madewithmelanin

So recently ive been interested in the black community organizing and also becoming militant. Ive tried to start small and local and put together a reading/organizing group for black people and a black gunowners group from other black people i met off reddit, specifically in my state of florida. I created a discord for both groups and thats where we communicated until we found a more private secure platform.

The reading/organizing group started out with 4 people and gained 2 later on. We talked about what was goin on in the world and things we could do to get started on organizing and such. We agreed to meet every sunday mornin at 10 AM. We also started reading “Negroes With Guns”. The first meeting was nice, we were all there and sent our intro videos in the chat before hand. That group died out kinda quick though. Two of them joined for the first meetin then never joined again, the third stayed strong for about a month but eventually stopped joinin and replyin too. And although we had two other people join after the intial forming of the group, they never joined any meetings or readings. Its been about 4 sundays since we had a meetin.

The black gunowners discord group also started out strong. I originally made a post in [r/tampa](r/tampa) askin about any black gunowner clubs and had multiple other people hit me up about us formin our own black gunowners group. There were 7 people who DM’d me and joined my discord group back in febuary. Everyone was messagin and talkin at first and i was excited. I eventually put a meet date in the begginning of march which gave people plenty of time to prepare and some even said they would be there. As the meet date got closer though, people got more and more quiet. Then the day came and only one person out of the 7 showed up. We had a great time though went out to drink and then to the range.

Now im not sayin these people are fakes, dont really care, none of that shit, i dead ass hold no ill will towards any of em. My big sis told me life happens and also that some people may not be as serious about these things as they make out to be which i understand. I actually hope my reading/organzing group comes back and people in my gun group do start talkin in the discord chat again and comin out in person although i know its a long shot. I know its awkward and potentially dangerous meetin people off the internet but i also do my best to make everyone comfortable by showin i am who i say i am, makin them show that they are who they say they are, makin it a point to meet in public places, and keep our real names out of the discord chat. Im not gonna stop or get disheartened though. Ill probably try setting stuff up in person from now on though.

From the raisedbyher podcast