I might need a moment for this - I am beyond angry. I’m frustrated. I’m tired. I’m not surprised.
Here’s the thing - I don’t ever think I will be comfortable talking to nonblacks about the racism that black people face day in and day out. I can already hear the people screaming that it’s my job as a minority to be open to those kind of discussions and help relieve ignorance - but but the older I get the more I feel that black living should not be about the opinion/thinking of nonblack people.
Sitting through those feeds and then coming back on social media and seeing the same shit happen - the laziness in the hatred is mind blowing. Y'all try y'all hardest to put the blame where it belongs. Somehow in talks mind she was such a weakness player but the house was noticing her game 😒. Dom’s only game was a social one. It wasn’t even fantastic it was great for her and her situation yes - because they’d been dropping her name and she was still staying in people’s pockets who wanted to protect her. Yet I see the tag trying to rewrite history. Y'all eat up the excuse of the interview 😪 again like they didn’t hate her and want her out waaay before then and that weren’t using that and the vote - that they know she DIDN’T do. But it’s about these thing huh? 👌 Fuck all y'all.
People have sat here and claimed that Dom shouldn’t have talked in circles that she should’ve just said his name straight out….and really at that point it was like for what?! The moment Elena lied - yes she did lie because Paul straight up sat there and told her a private conversation he had with Dom in the nature of trying to get her to dislike Dom - the moment that happen Dom knew she was done for because she had no proof, she just knows he’s a snake from talking to him and him being sneaky as hell with her. They tell Dom she has to prove she didn’t do something - something they know she didn’t do. This was a wall, a hive mentality and she knew it.
Dom mistake was caring what they and the outside was gonna say about her and her character. This is the mistake most black people make. We think that if we don’t act a certain way, that if we give into the opposite way they say we are then by default they can’t hang us…WRONG! This is 2017 and this year alone we’ve had many black people killed and America and those watching America has been okay with that, have excuses that. The box they give us to act in is a way for them to make slaughtering us (figuratively and non-figuratively) easier. Dom did her damnedest to not give in to the black stereotypes they bind us with…and still he spoke on her responses in the same way. They still set her as ABW. They paint us with savagery and then if we act within those so call traits we’re proving them right, but if we act opposite - guess what they still act like we’ve acted within those lines….but instead of overt examples they use the little things…didnyou see how she looked at me…shes dangerous…intimidating…aggressive…there’s just something about her. And it’s not just white people. Alex has been hating on Dom since day one. The things that supposedly makes Dom a civilized human and separates her from the black downfall are still her downfall. They complain she’s too godly, she doesn’t come right out and get confrontational about her views. She’s things she so classy so above everyone else because of how she speaks and how she acts. The problem - she’s black…ain’t no escaping that.
Black people like Dom are also gonna have to realize that. Even in Ika Wong game…oh they were giving it to her hard. Even people she was fucking saving. Only one who had some respect was Dem. even though Ika would have been gone earlier if not for him (protecting her with comps) it is still important to never be apologetic about your passion and anger when you’re black just like Ika (and Ika was like this in season 2 also so don’t come with that she just act like that because…). If people are talking shit…shut them the fuck down - who gives a fuck cause they’re gonna call you aggressive anyway! They’re allowed to get anger and demand respect…but so are you. And yes you’re gonna get the L…but they were gonna give you the L anyway so take that bitch knowing that you stood for yourself.
I watched BBcan5 and when Ika told Kevin that he would not try her like that, that he would be honest and real about the situation and why her and Dem were on the block. When she looked him dead in the eye and told him that he better put some respect all over her - that he better put some respect on her name and on her game because she was a better player than him and he would win despite that fact. I got emotional seeing that. They will do it to you…don’t let them. You deserve to be angry when they’re fucking you over…you deserve your respect and your right to demand it. Do not go passive. You can’t allow yourself to be afraid of what’s already happening. You can’t be afraid to get an A (aggressive/abw) on your chest when that bitch already there.
It’s frustrating because I can tell that Dom is a woman who has to constantly deal with this form of racism and it’s built her to react a certain way - for survival. But sometimes you have to wonder if we’re really surviving - we feel this on a daily. At our jobs, in social medias or our entertainment outlets, within our friendships and sometimes even our romantic relationships. It’s a suffocating feeling. I understood Dom’s every bitter laugh, her every scoff, her deep sighs.
Social medias response of ‘omg not the race card can we not talk about this’ don’t surprise me none - those who believe in that oppression always want silence to reign. This post post ain’t for y'all…I don’t give a shit about you. It’s for for the black people who always have to bite their tongue, who have to compose themselves, who have to bend and break themselves down trying to get some respect or to be heard.
