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kalisbaby · 5 months ago

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The key thing of racism is the breaking of the spirit. Not the intimidation or even the violence. Not always at least. No, it's the breaking of the spirit, of someone who hates your very existence so much that knowing you're somewhere, any where, just alive infuriates them. Your sin is being born you and there's no amount of pleading, bootstrapping, assimilating, nothing that can ever change that.

#i speak #so i saw a video today #of a white man bum rushing the stage at his daughter's hs graduation #to push the black superintendent out of the way so he couldn't shake his daughter's hand #and it was such an asinine moment of hatred #he turned a millisecond moment of both that man and his daughter's life #into a life of trauma #just to break that man's spirit #just to say without words i hate your black ass #and that's the crux of racism #violence shows up in many forms #most of them are the small moments like this

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