> Experiencing hardship conveys authority. > There is no hierarchy of oppressions—except for anti-black oppression, which is in a class of its own. > Trust bl

> Experiencing hardship conveys authority. > There is no hierarchy of oppressions—except for anti-black oppression, which is in a class of its own. > Trust black women. > Prison is never the answer. > Black people need black space. > Allyship is usually performative. > All non-black people, and many black people, are guilty of anti-blackness. > There is no way out of anti-blackness. Of these, I'd say 1, 4, and 5 make sense with caveats. The rest are spot on from what I know. 1. Experience does convey some authority on what you experienced, but making apt use of it requires thought. 4. I'd say American prison is seldom the answer. Once we get to a point where inmates aren't treated like cattle, I'd agree with this otherwise. 5. If we construe 'black space' as a space in which one's culture and history can be appreciated absent external influence, I'd say that makes sense. But white people shouldn't be scared to talk to a black person because they're afraid of intruding on their space. That's just fucked up. --- There are parents who are rich/powerful and are able to prepare their children for similar power, there are parents who live vicariously through their children; and unfortunately there are parents who are both. This leads to children holding the reins of entire institutions like colleges, and we pride ourselves in their emotionality towards important issues, but we forget that they're still children. The logic is knee-jerk, it's emotional, and it's not well thought out. As an example saying the n-word is unilaterally banned in most contexts (in the eyes of these 𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚝̶𝚎̶ elite). And not as a curse word, but as a hate crime. Nevermind that the person who is most likely to use that word, is probably black. So all this is doing is preserving the delicate sensibilities of the person in power and forcing the black person, again, to conform. I have hope for the coming generation that treats race as a joke, but not its history. But until it's normal to stop taking skin color so seriously on every aspect of human experience, and we can have a conversation about black racism, we've still some work to do.