Last day of February. Let's celebrate by dropping some more hot takes:
- White and white-passing people may not move goalposts on the Black identity, Black experiences, and what it is to be a mixed-Black person. This was brought upon us all by white supremacy in the first place, and the last thing we need is society to flop back into its old ways.
- White people, regardless of politics, need to do better to understand their social influence in a white supremacist society. Nonwhite people's rights are conditional at best, and the powers that be don't listen to us all the time, if at all.
- Black people have been barred from fair chances at school, work, and healthcare during 20th century economic booms. Stop perceiving Black people as "uncivilized". Not a lot of us crawled out to generate familial wealth, and even authorities aren't all comfortable with us having power. Look up "opportunity hoarding".
- Black queer people exist. Black trans lives matter. Protect and empower Black trans women and transfeminine people. Don't bar Black queer people from prestigious opportunities at school/work. You bet we notice the silent antiblackness within queer/trans spaces.
- If you're white/non-Black and want to share another Black person's voice, you put Black folks' voices before yours without wedging your ego into Black people's spaces.