Why Iâm tired of focusing on race: a thinkpiece thatâll lose all my followers. (Read Me Please)
I feel like a lot of black people on here hyper-focus on race to the point where any time there is a positive post about something a black person does, the comments are always âthis wont be news.â âwatch a white man take credit.â âthis wonât get notes.âÂ
We talk about the negative aspects of being black SO MUCH that its created this mentality where a lot of us interject a seed of racsim into everything.
Reblog stories about black people being attacked.
Add negative comments on POSITIVE posts that try to show good things black people are doing in the world.
Talk about slavery and antiblackness & how much everybody hates us.
Assume you or another black person will not be as loved, successful, or influential because of being black.
There is a post about a black woman who developed a CURE FOR CANCER, and literally the second comment is âa white man will take credit.âÂ
All you want to do is be negative, to the point where any time there is something positiveâ you have to shit on it. Itâs like you WANT to feel worthless and want everybody else to feel the same way; but in the same breath talk about how we need to âupliftâ black people and black girls in particular when youâre the main ones constantly going off about how horrible it is to be black.
There is a line between bringing awareness to issues and creating a circle jerk of misery. And I honestly feel like the latter is what we have here on tumblr.
Yes there is a lot of pain to unpack that comes with how black people are treated. And everybody needs to vent and unpack it and be honest about how they feel. And its not a one-time thing. And its not a âok now im done forever and I love myself!! :]â thing. Itâs a constant journey.Â
Iâm saying that if the first thing you have to do is find a seed of pain in a moment of joy and bring it up every chance you get, then you need to think about why youâre like this.Â
I am a 25 year old gay/bi black man with severe depression, anxiety, and host of problems I canât solve. It took me so long to get to the point where Iâve started to like who I am even a little bit. And I donât like myself nearly as much as a healthy person needs to, because the world makes it hard but some of yâall make it even harder.
I want to love my skin. I want to love my hair and my big ass nose. I want to love where I come from and where Iâm going. I want to love my history, my culture, and the little stamp on my driverâs license that says âBLKâ next to race even if the world tells me I shouldnât. I donât want to want or need acceptance from society or anybody else. I want to walk out the door and not feel like I am a lesser person than anybody I pass on the street.Â
And yâall make that. So. Fucking. Hard. With your negative ass comments and the circle jerk of misery.
Iâm to the point where I legitimately feel like if anti blackness was âoverâ tomorrow literally half of you wouldnât know what to do anymore. All you want to do is talk about white people, talk about the horrible things people have done to us since we got here, talk about what you canât have and wont have but should have; but then shake your head and say âblack is beautiful, love yourself #blackgirlmagic !!â and post some dark-skinned kid in a sundress like you didnât just spend 3 hours reblogging pictures of us swinging from trees, college kids in blackface, and somebody else who got shot by the cops.Â
If you want black kids and black people in general to feel good about themselves, then you need to actually create a positive culture where misery-porn isnât at the front and center.
You canât talk about how horrible it is to be black from sunup to sundown then lay in bed at night and wonder why self-hate is such a big problem.Â
And Iâm not talking about any people in particular here. If you follow me, then you should know by now that I call out any problem I see. And Iâm not trying to be dismissive of these problems, Iâm really honest to God not. But Iâve been on this website since 2012 and I feel confident in saying that a lot of you just donât know how to let anybody be happy. Including yourselves.
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