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A friend once explained it to me this way - some connect their blackness to their nationality, such as Jamaican or African, and to those people that label embraces something very powerful and important about who they are as a person. To "erase" that would be to erase their culture.
So, as a white girl, I humbly stay out of that discussion and will respect and honour whatever adjective(s) PoC choose, or reject.
So, as a white girl, I humbly stay out of that discussion and will respect and honour whatever adjective(s) PoC choose, or reject.
Exactly and ? agree. It always should be the persons choice how and what they want to define and label themselves regardless how and what. Some people may see themselves as human only, or non binary or without race or whatever they feel. It always should be their choice free of judgement and persecution.
She makes awesome points.
And I am not labelled as a "white" woman. I am labelled as a woman. Maybe an older woman at most.
I have really tried hard over the last couple of years to try to stop using the work "black" and refer to the term Person or People of Colour. It is hard. I won't lie and I fuck up, but I am trying to change my own terminology use so I applaud her for speaking out about it.
And I am not labelled as a "white" woman. I am labelled as a woman. Maybe an older woman at most.
I have really tried hard over the last couple of years to try to stop using the work "black" and refer to the term Person or People of Colour. It is hard. I won't lie and I fuck up, but I am trying to change my own terminology use so I applaud her for speaking out about it.
That is an example of someone refusing to be and play the victim. To me, that massive shift in attitude is what it will take to get the portion of the community that are in the dumps, back on it's feet...to create real change. Sadly groups like the vast majority of the media, BLM and similar race groups, a ton of politicians and the hard left want to continue to impose victim status on themselves/the black community. Once a victim, always a victim. It's a surefire way to keep the victims in the dumps.
