in addition, the "victim" is a classic white supremacist trick that all white supremacist (regardless of race) play on black and brown people to get them to be quiet about the real affects of racism in their lives by attacking their pride. it would be like if you stabbed me in the leg and i said "YO YOU STABBED ME IN THE LEG" and your reply was "oh stop playing the victim!!" then imagine, as i bleed on the floor, i say "i'm bleeding out" and your reply was "stop playing the victim card." it would be stupid asf, right? everyone watching that would think the person who did the stabbing was both an idiot and insane AND YET this is what white people and their self-hating black and nbpoc allies do this all the live long day. BUT it's with a purpose.
the goal is stir up your pride as a black and brown person in NOT wanting to be seen as weak, powerless, needy and incapable and they want you to see your acknowledgement of racism and its impact on our lives as exactly that. on top of that, if they can enough black and brown people to feel this way, then you won't actually do anything to change the root of your problems: white supremacy. if they can get us to be so desirous to not look weak, powerless, needy and incapable (in whose eyes btw? hint, white people), we'll just be okay with the staggering number of pregnant black women who die because racist doctors don't listen to them when they ask for help because they just believe that being black means a special mutant power to handle pain. if they can get us to be so desirous to not look weak, we'll just be fine with all the redlining that's happening in black neighborhoods, the murderous, racist policing that targets us, and all the other white supremacist fueled injustices we have to deal with. we'll do nothing, we will die and that's what they want. "the ultimate logic of racism is genocide" - mlk (another mlk quote you probably weren't taught in school).
the sad thing is that there are indeed plenty of black and brown people who have already fallen for this bullshit. to not "play the victim," they are all too happy to ignore what racism has done and is doing to black and brown people so that they can look strong in the eyes of those who hate them: white people.
and btw, "nikki" isn't her real name. her actual name is nimarata but to be more palatable to white people, she's not using it. even in that choice she is demonstrating what white supremacy does to black people and other poc. smfh
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