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Welcome to the Black Experience, White America!

///Truth Bomb of the Day///


***Warning***: If you're sensitive, just keeeeeep scrolling. This ain't for you.

For the rest of us, this was the comedy sketch that wasn't.


White people, let me be brutally honest. Trump is treating y'all like a bunch of n-words. This is shameful. Y'all really should do something about this.


Because here’s the part that got me: the same people clutching their pearls right now—talkin’ 'bout “This isn’t who we are” and “They’re doing too much”—are the SAME folks who been real quiet for decades while law enforcement was out here treating Black folks like insurgents.


So when we see White America acting shocked—shocked!—that a badge might be heavy-handed, that the system might be reckless, that “due process” might get treated like a suggestion? Sorry, but Black folks just don’t know how to perform outrage on command like that.


‘Cause to us, it don’t look like a new crisis.

It look like… Tuesday.


And that’s why it’s hard for us to see y'all's outrage as “outrage.”

To Black folks it sounds like: “Wait—y’all do THIS to everybody??”


Baybee! Welcome to the group chat! We BEEN in here!


The wildest part is how fast the language changes when it touches White America:


When it’s us: “Comply.”

When it’s y'all: “Civil liberties.”

When it’s us: “He should’ve complied with the officer's commands.”

When it’s y'all: “This feels like intimidation.”

When it’s us: “Stop playing the race card.”

When it’s y'all: “This is un-American!”


Nah. It’s VERY American. Y'all just finally got a front-row seat to the part of the movie we been starring in since 1619.


So yeah, the skit funny… but it’s that nervous laugh. The “mmm” ain’t just a sound. It’s a whole realization.


Mmmm… so THIS what it feel like when the system don’t care who you voted for.

Mmmm… so rights can get “flexible” depending on who’s in charge.

Mmmm… so law enforcement can be political when it wants to be.


Now listen: I’m not celebrating nobody getting murdered in cold blood by the system. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.


What I’m saying is: Don’t ask Black America to cry like we ain’t been hollerin' for 400 years.

If y'all are mad now—good. Stay mad.


But don’t just be mad because it finally hit your neighborhood.

Be mad enough to change the rules, not just the volume.


Because if the only time White America cares about state power is when it touches your group and stays silent when it hits everybody else's group… then we ain’t witnessing “outrage.”


We witnessing privilege shock.


And like my granny used to say:

“When it’s happening to them, it’s a tragedy. When it’s happening to us, it’s ‘policy.’”

Mmmmmmmm...

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