itโs just SO frustrating to me that taylor swift made an entire documentary about her social and political awakening and said that she wants to be more active in what happens in the world. she said over and over how she worked to dismantle an entire system in her head and learned how to reject it. how she was tired of being just a good girl who was polite and kept her mouth shut. she cried and fought with her father about how she wanted to be on the right side of history. she wrote a song about how young people can and will change the world. she branded herself as miss americana. and now when her black fans and black people all over the world need her the most, sheโs SILENT. she has a massive platform. on instagram alone, she has 133 million followers. posting a fucking black square and sharing a swipe up link is NOT enough. that is NOT activism. we are being unjustly murdered at the hands of white cops and white supremacists at an alarming rate. she has a responsibility to use her platform in the right way, and iโm sorry, but sheโs not doing it and iโm tired.ย
every single day iโm scared for myself, iโm scared for my friends, iโm scared that a little black girl is going to wake up somewhere tomorrow morning and find out that her mom or dad was racially targeted by a trigger happy police officer and suddenly she has to grow up without one of her parents. iโm scared that this is never going to change and that black people will have to live in fear for the rest of forever. iโm scared that one day i might have to sit down with my own children and tell them how to respond when they get pulled over by a police officer. iโm scared that one day when my own children are my age theyโre going to have to go out and protest for themselves & their friends to have basic fucking human rights. iโm tired and iโm scared and iโm sick of white celebrities and their performative activism.ย
โฆand to all the white people in this fandom, please just stop taking time out of your day to tell us that weโre wrong about this and that taylor must have so much going on in her life right now. Taylor was on social media enough to know (and post) about the blackout on Tuesday. Taylor was on social media enough to know about the riots in the first place. She has the time and resources to stand with the black lives matter movement. So yes, we have every right to be angry at a woman who weโve dedicated so much to for her not to stand up more for our basic human rights.
I can hope that she has not wanted to direct attention away from the movement and has chosen to donate privately, but I do wish she were more vocal about dismantling this broken system.
Iโm sure she has donated privately, but now is not the time to show PRIVATE support. It needs to be PUBLIC support.
When Taylor talked publicly about the fight to own her own work, she herself called on fellow celebrities and other folks with a big platform to be publicly supportive of her and artistsโ rights. BLACK LIVES are on the line. Black lives matter. And Black people are calling for PUBLIC support. @taylorswiftย
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