I’m not including no “Tyrion’s” in my org. Y’all might be able to volunteer, i’ll Be damned if any of my policy has their input. You see where Tyrion’s loyalties truly were. Dany got got and he got placed into power. Failing upward doesn’t work for Black women. Art reflects life, especially when mediocre clear’s are crafting worlds. My mama me taught critical thinking early in life by always questioning 6fs’ motivations. So, my observation of history clearly shows that you can’t save whyteness while trying to free Blackness from its belly. If this were the case it would have already been done. Wow, the logic of some leaders will get you got. Sometimes I wish money meant more to me so maybe I could see where these delusions stem from, but I’m not built that way. I’m me.
When the dust settles, the most marginalized Black people are always left holding the bag or the body bag is holding them. TransFolx are killed daily by Black men. Before death there is a chasm of culturallly accepted abuse that our sibs wade through. I’ve seen it as a child who had a trans cousin,masculine Aunties and feminine uncles. As a child I saw how my trans cousin was ostracized farther and farther away from family. How her assaults were smirked at. How the blame for her ultimate death was her. RIP, cuzzo. I only saw you in passing as a child but I never forgot you and how “family” treated you.
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Has focusing all of the efforts on black men helped us, or had it turned them into the whyte men of Black America? Able to hurt, rape, kill and maim in full daylight while being egged on and getting compensated for evil. The person so concerned with including the opinions of your oppressors will, ultimately, forfeit your life for optics and proximity. Some of y’all are JUST starting to get it. Great, keep growing but your foundational thinking is tainted with a generation of extreme hate towards Black LGBTQIA, Black women, and especially Black feminists. Go unpack that before you damaged a few more generations. This isn’t your lane to carve out, it’s been already paved and payed with the bloody bricks of Black transwomens broken bodies. It is your lane to stop talking, tho.
I’m not trading in this BS game of “proximity gets you access”. Access to those who subsist off of your very aura? How gauche. What is left of you and your goals after proximity has been achieved? I’ll take proximity to Blackness for #goals. Everyone in the whole world does. Using Black bodies, theories, culture, words, ….swagger benefits nonBlack people across the social stratosphere in America and globally. What I won’t be is a conduit for yet another clear person failing successfully at life. History has shown otherwise, you highly educated clowns.
