#doaks

tag yourself, I’m both of them

I know who sent this to me i just cant prove it..

White people have a funny way of remembering history.

“You’re not even a slave, so how would you know how bad the slaves had it?!” “But the Black Panthers were just as bad as the KKK!” “I think Martin Luther King Jr. would be ashamed if he saw you race baiting!” History is written by and for white folks, romanticizing one side of history while shading the other. They’ll plaster images of sad, poor white folks during The Great Depression but will omit stories of those same white folks stealing and killing Black folks. They’ll loath the existence of the L.A Crips and Bloods but will fail to recognize why these gangs formed in the first place (they were young, poor Black kids who were denied entry into the Boy Scouts.) Now, people of color (POC) have an opportunity to change that. The more we write, rant and discuss, the more receipts we collect so if one day, 30 years from now, a white dude says, “oh yea, the Baltimore riots started because Blacks were attacking the police!” we POCs can be like, NOT SO FAST, MR. MCNOODLEBERRY! Then we’ll pull out our iPhone90, show them this blog and be like: