White people KNOW what they do. I’m really tired of the narrative that they’re scared, or threatened, or nervous. They see Black and Brown people in spaces that they FALSELY believe are exclusively theirs, and then with intention and deliberation, weaponize their privilege and the prevailing white supremacist nature of our society to utilize the state (police) in order to remove us.
This shows us two things. One, that white pseudo-safety is more important than actual Black lives. The news of Black Death due to state sanctioned violence is too prevalent for anyone to be ignorant to the fact that if you call the police on Black and Brown people, you are placing them in a situation where they might be killed. And two, that the police have always been a force that imposes the will of both capitalists and whiteness first and foremost. Because this is such a regular occurrence is evidence enough that at the end of the day, white people can RELIABLY call the police to do their bidding, no matter what the perceived (and usually completely fabricated) slight was.
