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How to Safely Criticize the Black Community as a White Person.
Because MLK was your personal hero and he would be ashamed at the black community, or at least rap music, right?
While the black community faces many challenges within American society, it also has major issues within the community itself. Issues like black toxic masculinity, mental health issues, homophobia, transphobia, widespread misogynoir, poverty, too much trust in the church, obesity, colorism, and underreporting of domestic violence and child abuse. And depending on how you feel about kids, the black community is either having too many or aborting them all.
If you are a Well-meaning White Person™️, you may also be concerned about these things. Because the term of 2019 is intersectionality, you may have some opinions on how the black community should handle some problems. Here’s the best way to express your concern: you don’t.
That’s right. YOU DON’T.
You think any black person is going to tolerate you talking about our people like that, even as a joke? It’s like having a sibling. I can call my brother annoying all I want. He’s my younger brother. But you can’t talk about him to me. I nearly got suspended from school for fighting kids that picked on my brother. My own husband can’t…