I read a post on another site about a dude they called "The angry Black man" at work.
I was encouraged to see he unapologetically owned the title and wanted to share my reply to him:
Oftentimes it's a mindgame
because they hate not being able
to make you a "friendly pushover"
to target and ambush
with racist jokes and knowingly inappropriate comments.
In other words,
You aren't their
symbolic Black punching bag
to take out resentment of us on.
Respect.
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Because this site (that I won't advertise for because they do too many of us dirty)
forces you to abbreviate your thoughts and so sometimes you don't get in exactly
what you want to say or people miss what you're trying to say.
I wanted to add this:
We need to be as "eager" to be "smiling and friendly" to them
as they are "eager" to give us our long overdue reparations and
as quick to be unfriendly as they are to troll us online and offline.
Give respect, get respect....maybe....
they're still centuries behind
on repair and dues owed.
Once that happens,
even THEN....
it might still be a while
before that's even a consideration.
I was encouraged to see he unapologetically owned the title and wanted to share my reply to him:
Oftentimes it's a mindgame
because they hate not being able
to make you a "friendly pushover"
to target and ambush
with racist jokes and knowingly inappropriate comments.
In other words,
You aren't their
symbolic Black punching bag
to take out resentment of us on.
Respect.
********************************************************
Because this site (that I won't advertise for because they do too many of us dirty)
forces you to abbreviate your thoughts and so sometimes you don't get in exactly
what you want to say or people miss what you're trying to say.
I wanted to add this:
We need to be as "eager" to be "smiling and friendly" to them
as they are "eager" to give us our long overdue reparations and
as quick to be unfriendly as they are to troll us online and offline.
Give respect, get respect....maybe....
they're still centuries behind
on repair and dues owed.
Once that happens,
even THEN....
it might still be a while
before that's even a consideration.
