I follow a black conservative on Twitter. Yesterday I noticed her giving someone hell with the Twitter name “GenericNigga.” Insinuating all sorts of things about him, chastising him for using the word “Nigga.” That set me off. A black person trying to tell another black person how to be black. How to have their human experience. Fuck no. So I decided to ask:

Me:    Do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC throughout the world?

: …Actually I got no answer from her for a very long time. So I asked again.

Me:     Do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC throughout the world?

Her:  My answer to your question, in today’s world everyone makes their own destiny, the white man is not holding me back

Me:    No, thats not the answer to the question that I ASKED. What I asked was….do you think that white people are free from responsibility regarding the situations of PoC all over theworld? You also do not live in America, so I know that you cannot answer this question from the perspective of a Black American. But, sweetie, racism is real. The ideology of white superiority is real, and it pervades here, and around the world everyday. Centuries of systematic oppression DOES PLAY A ROLE in the lives of the descendants of those being oppressed and enslaved. It is incredibly difficult for a people to bring themselves up, when theyve only ever been put down. This is hard on an individual level, especially a collective level. The prevailing ideology of white superiority is still very real and it has everything to do with the lives of blacks in this country. everything. You should read ‘The Mis-Education of the Negro’, ‘Brainwashed: Challenging the myth of black inferiority.” And many more. It is not easy being black in this country. It is not easy being non-white in this WORLD.  Who elses fault would that be? Do you think that centuries of slavery, oppression, deprivation and humiliation? Its only been 150-someodd years since the emancipation 

proclamation.Do you think that centuries of slavery, oppression, deprivation and humiliation can be erased in 151 years?
    The emotional and physical destruction, humiliation and enslavement pushed upon those who survived the Middle Passage has evolved into a perpetuating cycle. Maybe self perpetuating but it is not the VICTIMS fault.

(I dont know why the fonts changed, etc. I repasted from twitter, maybe thats why.)