Writing The Revolution, Vol. 1

I really thought “How to Get Away With Murder” was just a tv drama that was on ABC on Thursdays, not a horror show on every channel that has a new premiere of a Black body every other week and Black folks are the main ones tuned in for ratings while the racist White folks change the channel.

Reading things on this blue app and seeing the amount of sexism, homophobia, ableism, etc. in y’all’s takes while trying to combat racism, it’s clear that a lot of y’all aren’t actually ready for the type of revolution we need.

We gon’ get into all the good stuff this week- how hopefully this will signal the end of “influencer culture” becuase ya fave designers, influencers, rappers and singers are showing you their entire ass and being a coon for the cause.

The “elite” Blacks who sound White when making illogical statements about riots and looting to save face-and are closer to White supremacy than you think.

How these corporations are silent as hell but quick to take your Black dollar, creativity and culture to re-sell and profit off of.

Virgil Abloh, creator of Off-White donated $50 measly dollars to a bail fund because he was “crazy inspired”, and he said that with HIS WHOLE CHEST. Ya’ll still rushing to buy his corny sneakers when he gave freedom fighters the equivalent of a deluxe seafood boil in a monetary donation.

How there’s no use in changing the mind of racists, but how to throw digital hands and preserve your peace. You really surprised the “I don’t see color” banjo strumming White folks who only tolerated you in high school and college are getting bold cause their privilege allows them to? All they know is the Whitewashed MLK and have the audacity to try to weaponize his words against us like he wasn’t assassinated.

How we can and WILL NOT CONTINUE to have selective outrage and leave Black women’s deaths by police brutality out of this conversation when we’re some of the main ones always fighting (this isn’t a gender war nor a pain Olympics but it needs to be said because it’s prevalent and painful- I’ll drag you on this all day. I said what I said).

How we’re seeing the world in declivity and the book of Revelations operate in real life. (P.S-Peaceful protesting is a myth and coded language-more on this later).

How police brutality is also an international emergency w Black people (like how the police shot a Brazilian boy 70 times and Canadian police threw a Black woman off an apartment balcony and called it a suicide).

How POC isn’t exclusive and a lot of POC aren’t for Black liberation (all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk).

How folks were/are conditioned that property and material goods define us and are more valuable than lives. Also, police are class traitors and a lot of this would be eradicated if poverty was solved. Poverty is the root of a lot of crime and is another form of state sanctioned violence.

How pro Black doesn’t mean anti White because I know some allies that won’t duck any action and know Black history better than some Black folks do. The ones that risk being exiled and defriended all in the name of checking their friends and families cushy White distorted bubbles.

OH, and just because it’s PRIDE Month doesn’t mean I’ll let anybody ignore the fact that if it wasn’t for black trans'* women like Marsha P. Johnson dying and advocating, ya’ll wouldn’t be able to wear rainbow attire,celebrate or drink your soy lattes out of rainbow Starbucks cups. Black women built the LBGTQ movement too on blood, sweat, tears and denied humanity/identity.

Finally, how Black journalists are TIRED.

Real loud regarding COVID-19, but silent on the true pandemic of racial unrest. Amazon had a COVID response, but none on Black lives being taken. No hazard pay on Black brutality, no Prime shipping on the topic of solidarity w Black folks that make you rich each day. I see you.

HR won’t ask you anything except about quotas, call offs and how the company needs you while you having a mental breakdown at work while Becky, Thao and Brendan are at the water cooler talking about sports and shopping.

Pen to paper has always been my weapon of choice.

Everyone can’t be a front line soldier-revolution comes in many tangible forms.

Stay with me.