Also asking me to be grateful for help that self defined “good people” or “not racists” do and being mad at me for calling it out/not being grateful enough is essentially clutching ones pearls calling folks uppity from a historical sense...

So did you mean to accidentally prove my point (I as a WOC need to protect myself and not rely on men or white women to protect me because some of them may not have my best interest at heart

So your argument is? That she’s not pale enough to be “unintentionally” racist? Anti-blackness runs through virtually every ethnic group in this country, including my own. Even if she identifies as a POC, as I do, that doesn’t mean she is immune to ideas/attitudes that uphold white supremacy, like sidelining Black…

That said, there’s a bit of “beggars can’t be choosers” here. Take all the allies you can get, because the ruling minority doesn’t give a shit about purity testing and will stomp all of us all the same.

You have to admit threatening to call the police on people who don’t like your nonprofit is a pretty white feminist move though.

the typical white feminist response that is defensively sticking up for one’s own intentions.

Yeah, I run a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and that’s not how any of this works. And can you imagine starting a nonprofit with the explicit mission of combatting police brutality, and then threatening people who criticize it with carceral violence? That’s a Final Karen Boss move right there.

I didn’t feel like writing a screed but I guess I have time today. So I’m going to deconstruct some of this in reverse order.

“We are on your side, and if you don’t see that I will unleash the full weight of the Establishment on you.”

Also, have you met many moms? I’m on a group text with other moms and of the five of us, only two of us are hesitant to send our kids to school next month. Another mentioned that her kid has just worn a mask for the first time while visiting the dentist and yet another proudly announced her kids were doing in-person…

Can I also jump in to say that they are absolutely not a non-profit yet. The process of 501(c)(3) creation takes, at an absolute minimum, 6 months. And until you are a non-profit you are not a non-profit. Like applying does not confer the status. So this whole thing says to me that she doesn’t get it on multiple…

And it’s that line of thinking that’s dangerous. One day your enemy’s enemy looks up and realizes that they now hate you more. Or realize that you and them being equal makes them less powerful in relation. Intersectionality has literally always brought out this dynamic between white women and WOC or POC writ large.

Just in case this OP deletes my reply:

Yep. True colors there, lady.

So as long as someone helps me when the bigger bully is hitting me, they’re allowed to hit me too?

“Why would you make it about yourself when we’re already out here doing the work? Why try to co-opt that?”

Barnum may not have been in it for the money but I’m betting she saw the opportunity for it pretty early on. She’s from one of the most exclusive (and white) PDX suburbs and used many of her WOM interviews to turn the focus to herself, her marketing savvy and her children’s education (homeschooling and private…

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Thank you for lifting up voices that have been and continue to be integral to Portland, especially now. Teressa Raiford and Don’t Shoot PDX do incredible work. As a non-black, multi-racial person who’s lived in PDX the past decade, I can attest that Portland’s got some issues in the race and diversity department. It’s…

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