As an urban black man who grew up in a foster home in a rural white setting, I have so many feelings.
I know the data and fear that people living in the middle of nowhere feel, I’ve been there. I know the numbers and fear that people of color and minorities living in cities feel, I am here. All legitimates. How to answer them?
Not by having a very controversial Democrat candidate, for one. It is common sense to not have a candidate that represents everything that people in pain hate and don’t want anymore. You have to be completely deaf to not understand that. Well done, white liberals.
It’s done now. All the isms were here, they’re just a bit more validated but it’s not like women weren’t getting molested a few days ago. It’s not like I didn’t get some impossibly hard looks and being called a fucking nigger earlier this year. We are all battling, we were and we will.
Another thing: stop shaming people, really. you give them the strength of ten Hulks and although it might feel cathartic in the end it’s dumb as fuck. People build entire goals they didn’t have because of your funny memes targeting them. Don’t be that person, stop panicking by being petty. Not bringing the light on things you don’t want to thrive is good practice, look at the UN stance on reparations for black people in America: no one talked about it, no one talks about it. You didn’t even know! The silence treatment works, it’s just not sexy.
Anyway let’s move on. Next step for me: voting for the French elections next year. Another one.