From whatever blog I decide to post a thought from when I am posting in support of "violence is the answer" in response to racism, someone always tries to point out the danger in reacting violently to racism and to that I say: I know, and yet it is my choice.
If somebody's response to you rocking they shit because they were being racist, is them shooting you in the forehead, I need you to understand that that is somebody who was gonna do something like that anyway. You're not being murdered for the sake of giving in to violence. You're being murdered because that racist you punched is a murderer.
Some will say "You gave them what they wanted." I don't care what they wanted. What I want is to hurt you in the face when you're being racist towards me. I can very well get murdered by a racist person in everyday life for no good reason. This is a thing that happens to people all the time and I am not above it. I simply haven't had that type of interaction with a racist murderer yet. But in fact, in the era that I adopted this belief in responding with fists to the violence of racism, I was at my most radical and most likely chances to be harmed by a racist.
I decided that the chance of being shut down by violence and being remembered as someone who "deserved it" true story.. in hypothetical situations about being murdered during one of my things that I would do when I was younger, several people believed that if I were killed doong certain things that it would be because I was doing those things. Like challenging authorities and refusing to let people violate me, and so forth.
That really opened my eyes about a lot of things. When women who remind me of me are murdered and people who know me announce reasons why they "see why" these women are murdered, I drew the conclusions that if I should die standing up for myself, I would be blamed by enough people to fill a hashtag.
So, please believe me when I say that I know it's hard to stand up for yourself and even to fight. But nobody should be allowed to be racist against you without repercussions and people are protected in such a way that repercussions are generally not enough for the antiblackness visited upon you. You might not be able to affect them the way that they affect you. But one thing is certain. That swift lesson in watching their mouth will stick with them AND, if you're anything like me, it is a statement of self worth.
I don't care if you can beat my ass. I don't care if you can kill me. I'm giving you the energy that what you did stirred up in me. And I will never regret it. Every racist that ever existed deserved to be contacted with violence and if you think the violence "didn't make them better," its not supposed to. It was to let them know that some of us will hit them and they have the choice on whether that teaches them to be better or to at least shut up. If they respond with more racism, baby that's just who they were and cheers to you, you did the work of a god by hitting them for it.
