It seems like it would be more effective for you to ask for help/support/etc. from liberal white college students itching for a cause to join. They have more access to time, money and connections.

I understand the frustration with other non-white people, but I’m still supportive of solidarity with other people of color. I know that the group “Asians for Black Lives” has been relatively active in the BLM movement and that there’s an emerging movement among young Asians to address anti-blackness in the Asian…

It’s adorable how you, a foreigner, have no idea of the realities of Blackness in America. Black people here are not at all making any decisions to come to your country and do anything. The idea that Black people are “all equally American occupiers” is laughable to anyone who acknowledges our history and current…

True. So many of our “liberal allies” are so invested in seeing themselves as “good guys” that they cannot, psychologically, acknowledge the role they play in upholding white supremacy. It’s unacceptable.

I do get frustrated sometimes when I see non-black POC demand things from black people without acknowledging the anti-blackness in their own communities. I can’t get behind your generalized comment about non-black POC failing to combat anti-blackness. Quite a few non-black POC groups have participated in the Black…

I get it, but that’s why, as an adult, you say: “I’m not an authority on this so I’m not going to answer the question.”

Let’s not forget to mention the rampant anti-Black racism that exists among many groups of POC as a matter of course.

Like I didn’t realize that playing the deaths of people who look like me in a loop on national tv constituted a privilege.

Thank you! Look at the protests over the sentencing of Peter Liang over the death of Akai Gurley. I mean the main thrust of the argument from Asian protesters, was that Peter Liang is being scapegoated cause he is Asian and white police officers get to kill black people with no consequences and thus, we deserve the…

Non-black POC need to stop expecting black Americans to stand up for their plights and causes when they never show their fucking faces when something is going on for us. Nor do they combat anti-black American biases within their own communities.

To be fair, this piece was generally considered to be a fairly unethical hit job (for instance, the writer goaded MIA to have the truffle fries and then used it as a point to illustrate her privilege, as we knew from, as i recall, released tapes of the interview). Also, Ben Bronfman is in fact the son of a billionaire…

I would like for people, esp. other people of color, to stop acting as if black people are in this privileged position where everybody takes our concerns more seriously than they take the concerns of other marginalized groups.

It makes you wonder if conversations like these are happening in publisher offices:

It’s like all the fanboys who whined about Idris Elba as Heimdall in the Thor movies, but apparently had no problem with the army being integrated a war early in Captain America. They fear and hate the loss of an all-white fantasy more than actual historical anachronism.

Some guy argued that very same thing to me about having a black Guinevere in the BBC show Merlin. He said it was unrealistic. Nevermind that PoC have existed in Europe for well over a thousand years. He apparently had a harder time believing that a black person could exist in the fictional court of King Arthur than he…

What’s especially hard is to find YA books with black female protagonists that 1) aren’t about racial issues 2) don’t take place in Africa and 3) don’t have to do with African myths/folklore.

Even if you were reading it correctly and she was tired of reading about boys and dogs separately, you read an entire article about a black girl trying to help other black girls by sending them books with protagonists that reflect them and that’s all you got out of it? What about the dogs?

I feel like most popular children’s books with black girl protagonists are historical books (about slavery or the civil rights movement), and while those topics are undoubtedly very important, it’s like... Being black isn’t the only thing that black girls have to offer. And don’t even get me started on the white…

Naw, what she said is she was sick of reading about BOYS and their dogs. She wanted to see representations of people that look like herself. Her issue was not with dogs, she used the ‘boys and their dogs’ as an example. #notalldogs

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