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s the place we can all go to do better. But there’s no such place over yonder.It’s white people using words to pretend the simplest form of understanding without investing in doing the real work of getting to accept that you’ve done terrible, terrible things. And those horrifying actions have consequences. One of which is me as a Black person not seeing the good in you. Another is I don’t believe you can do better.Because you’re willing to use sweet little words to stay on the surface and not plumb the depths of true understanding and acceptance of the behaviour of white people and the systems they’ve put in place to ensure Black anguish, don’t warrant me waiting for you to do better. White people have never done well by Black people, how can you mouth the words “do better” without understanding your insanely destructive behaviour? In that light do you understand how your words can come off as careless? Insensitive?If you want to do better, then do it. Go out and take action right now. Change some lives, do your better and keep doing it because as a Black person, I don’t believe you do have the ability to be good or to do better. What have you done to earn the right to suggest to a Black person you can do or be better? Black people, my people, my ancestors, and my family today, everywhere around the world are suffering because of your lack of any accountability or ability to be better than you are right now.The only thing you’ve ever proven is your exquisite talent for destroying Black lives. That’s why I said your words were a pretense. A ruse that hides the truth of white lies from yourselves.<h2 id="426d">Now, here’s an opinion</h2>In my opinion, you don’t want to stop and consider how long Black people have been suffering waiting for you to do better and waiting for you to change. You just want to keep it all surface and simple, without any real awareness.It’s like those days when I don’t feel I can work out, but I read about a new exercise and believe that somehow the reading of it is enough. It’s not.We’re past those points. There isn’t any more rope left for you to change and do better. Because too many Black bodies have been left hanging while we hoped you come around and join us in doing, and you don’t seem to get that.You don’t seem to understand that we are literally paying with our lives while you take all the time you need to do better and to believe in the good in people.<h2 id="3614">12.5 million</h2>White people are responsible for the deaths of approximately 12.5

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million people during the middle passage. White people threw the dead overboard to be eaten by sharks. You branded us, raped us, stole our children, hanged us, separated families, took our wealth, and you continue to decimate us today in 2021.2022 ain’t looking any better either.Do Better? See the good?How? How exactly are you doing better? Too many whites are fascinated by the exploits of the most vicious and vile billionaires. You glorify these men as they don’t practice exactly the same behaviours as your ancestors. You close your eyes to the hell they wreak at home and around the world then talk about we’re all complicit. Do better. Those aren’t words inviting anyone to explore the truth, they’re the least you can do before you stop and close your eyes again.I know I’m aiming this at you both, I know that. But this isn’t just you. I know that too. I know this is a system. But here’s the thing, you benefit from that system. And I lose from that same system. I lose so you win. And when you say shite like “do better” and “see the good,” there’s blowback precisely because those are words you use to let yourselves off the hook. And that’s wrong.You keep letting yourself off the hook and you need to stop. Because every time you make the choice to hide, which is what you’re words are trying to do, you waste more of my life. Of Black lives.While you’re taking the time to say “do better” and “I see the good,” people are dying. Instead of seeing who you really are, you use words to distort your image. And it’s dishonest.I am a Black person and I see the good in many white people. I believe all people, Black, and white must do better. But that’s not good enough and it won’t ever be enough.White people need to see the truth and stop hiding behind words designed to make it easier for all y’all.Doing better means admitting the truth. See the blood you’ve spilled, the genocide you’ve committed, and continue to permit. See the horror you’ve made, walk through it, then you’ll be qualified to see the good and talk the talk of doing better.In the meantime, your slogans mean nothing because we are not all in this together.<h2 id="7a1b">In Closing</h2>Ed, you mentioned my girls. you should know that the biggest fear they have is me dying. My youngest has nightmares and her anxiety leaves her distraught thinking about my death because of the stress of white supremacy.Also, I thought I was finished with this, turns out I’m not.</article></body>

Every Time a White Person Doesn’t Like What I’ve Said, I’m Hateful

This was my third attempt at a response, then I got mad

I wrote a piece here about words that white people use to shy away from the truth of white supremacy and its continuing crimes and impact on Black people. I think what I’m reacting to here Ed Witek, is there seems to be a certain discomfort with a Black person being angry. And I take issue with that, deeply.

Speaking for myself alone, I am angry. And I have a right to this anger. I’ve let that anger sit in me and boil my insides while smiling it down to make white people comfortable. I’ve channeled it into soft words and a fierce control I’ve been forced into having because of white rage and its costs. I have choked it back too many times and you know what that does? It makes my head pound, it makes my heart clench and feel like it’s beating out of my chest.

And you know what? I bet if we sat together and had a discussion, you’d tell me I was certainly entitled to my anger. Which is what you said when you told me you could not understand my anger and pain. But to then follow that up with “having absolute and unchangeable opinions will not change anything,” told me you didn’t understand. Instead, you used a tactic that is common with white people. You say the words, “I want to hear what you have to say” and then you immediately dismiss my words when I speak.

There are no opinions here

Black people suffering because of racism isn’t an opinion. The United Nations declared that what Black people have endured in Canada and the US is genocide. That genocidal behaviour hasn’t ended, it continues to inform and affect Black lives right now.

To dismiss that as “an unchangeable opinion” is to willingly and easily dismiss the truth of our experiences and to let white people deny the truth of your behaviour. And you did it so easily. And quickly.

You say you read my writing because you want to see the truth as ugly as it is. But when I say that you use words to hide the truth from yourself, you tell me I’m hateful and not seeing the good in people.

I see the good in people, but what does that do for us when we’ve got nothing? It’s prattle that doesn’t create change. The words seem to suggest that “doing better” is a thing on the horizon. Just over there is the place we can all go to do better. But there’s no such place over yonder.

It’s white people using words to pretend the simplest form of understanding without investing in doing the real work of getting to accept that you’ve done terrible, terrible things. And those horrifying actions have consequences. One of which is me as a Black person not seeing the good in you. Another is I don’t believe you can do better.

Because you’re willing to use sweet little words to stay on the surface and not plumb the depths of true understanding and acceptance of the behaviour of white people and the systems they’ve put in place to ensure Black anguish, don’t warrant me waiting for you to do better. White people have never done well by Black people, how can you mouth the words “do better” without understanding your insanely destructive behaviour? In that light do you understand how your words can come off as careless? Insensitive?

If you want to do better, then do it. Go out and take action right now. Change some lives, do your better and keep doing it because as a Black person, I don’t believe you do have the ability to be good or to do better. What have you done to earn the right to suggest to a Black person you can do or be better? Black people, my people, my ancestors, and my family today, everywhere around the world are suffering because of your lack of any accountability or ability to be better than you are right now.

The only thing you’ve ever proven is your exquisite talent for destroying Black lives. That’s why I said your words were a pretense. A ruse that hides the truth of white lies from yourselves.

Now, here’s an opinion

In my opinion, you don’t want to stop and consider how long Black people have been suffering waiting for you to do better and waiting for you to change. You just want to keep it all surface and simple, without any real awareness.

It’s like those days when I don’t feel I can work out, but I read about a new exercise and believe that somehow the reading of it is enough. It’s not.

We’re past those points. There isn’t any more rope left for you to change and do better. Because too many Black bodies have been left hanging while we hoped you come around and join us in doing, and you don’t seem to get that.

You don’t seem to understand that we are literally paying with our lives while you take all the time you need to do better and to believe in the good in people.

12.5 million

White people are responsible for the deaths of approximately 12.5 million people during the middle passage. White people threw the dead overboard to be eaten by sharks. You branded us, raped us, stole our children, hanged us, separated families, took our wealth, and you continue to decimate us today in 2021.

2022 ain’t looking any better either.

Do Better? See the good?

How? How exactly are you doing better? Too many whites are fascinated by the exploits of the most vicious and vile billionaires. You glorify these men as they don’t practice exactly the same behaviours as your ancestors. You close your eyes to the hell they wreak at home and around the world then talk about we’re all complicit. Do better. Those aren’t words inviting anyone to explore the truth, they’re the least you can do before you stop and close your eyes again.

I know I’m aiming this at you both, I know that. But this isn’t just you. I know that too. I know this is a system. But here’s the thing, you benefit from that system. And I lose from that same system. I lose so you win. And when you say shite like “do better” and “see the good,” there’s blowback precisely because those are words you use to let yourselves off the hook. And that’s wrong.

You keep letting yourself off the hook and you need to stop. Because every time you make the choice to hide, which is what you’re words are trying to do, you waste more of my life. Of Black lives.

While you’re taking the time to say “do better” and “I see the good,” people are dying. Instead of seeing who you really are, you use words to distort your image. And it’s dishonest.

I am a Black person and I see the good in many white people. I believe all people, Black, and white must do better. But that’s not good enough and it won’t ever be enough.

White people need to see the truth and stop hiding behind words designed to make it easier for all y’all.

Doing better means admitting the truth. See the blood you’ve spilled, the genocide you’ve committed, and continue to permit. See the horror you’ve made, walk through it, then you’ll be qualified to see the good and talk the talk of doing better.

In the meantime, your slogans mean nothing because we are not all in this together.

In Closing

Ed, you mentioned my girls. you should know that the biggest fear they have is me dying. My youngest has nightmares and her anxiety leaves her distraught thinking about my death because of the stress of white supremacy.

Also, I thought I was finished with this, turns out I’m not.