Comic: Tired of hearing about slavery? There is plenty more to discuss.
If they are tired of these conversations or just not ready for them, all they need to do, and bear with me here… is be quiet and go away.
by JeCorey Holder
I’m sure you’ve seen white people get their trust funds in a bunch and moan about how ”All you Black people do is talk about slavery” whenever one of us breathes funny or something. White people do know that slavery isn’t all we have on them, right? There’s plenty we can talk about, baby.
Bold of me to assume they’d even listen and rationally process it, but regardless, the history is right there. Easily accessible with a few clicks.
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I’m sure they’re tired of hearing about it. They make that abundantly clear, even when nobody is even TALKING TO them. But might I offer a gentle rebuttal: WE are tired of having to live through the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s lingering effects on how Black people are treated.
But oh no! By all means! Let’s skip the first chapter and go right ahead with the government sanctioned experiments that left Black people irreparably injured. Perhaps the public lynchings of innocent Black people that were made into collectable postcards. The 7,600 people (5,000 of which were Black) who were forcibly sterilized by the state of North Carolina between 1929 and 1974. The bombing and destruction of Black populated American cities? Happened a COUPLE of times.
And those are just the anti-Black atrocities I could think of off the top of my weary head. Get my ass on a Google search and we could literally be here for DAYS, my dude.
Since I am in no mood to once again go over the Page 1 shit that is the concept of White Privilege, I will merely make a suggestion:
If they are tired of these conversations or just not ready for them, all they need to do, and bear with me here… is be quiet and go away.
Let us talk about the generational effects of America’s history on Black people and we’ll let y’all get back to your Civil War reenactments or whatever.
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Gamer, geek, and social activist. JeCorey Holder has been weaving tapestries of shade and fury since the early 2000’s. Pro-LGBTQ, pro-black, and pro intersectional feminism, he is full of feelings and opinions that try to call out and tear down the oppressive status quo.
