SIMPLY ME.

house nigga

field nigga 

a bit of white oppressor 

Leo Fitzpatrick - Every One Knows And Nobody Cares, n/d

acrylic on canvas

Alright, so I’m gonna just go on ahead and explain this to you because you seem like a nice person that also happens to be in a very dangerous position.

White people finding an appeal in the way black people look and act for their own pleasure and for their own image is not in any way indicative of them accepting black people

First of all, when they see a commercialized stereotypical image of a black man or a black woman, they assume that to be a representation of the overall black image which from the start is going down a bad path.

Little white boys trying to pretend to be what they think black is does not at all mean they love black people. I can be the first to tell you as a Floridian, a white dude that wears baggy clothes, dated G-Unit merchandise a du-rag and a snap back can still be in the KKK. And I know how y’all Europeans like to get and say that America’s the only racist place there is, well trust me them same white boys probably live next door to you so don’t assume for one second they are exempt from the same hatred.

And those white girls from Essex that get the weaves and the tans and the lip injections and the butt implants will be the same ones to turn around and see all that on a black women and they’ll dehumanize them and say that they’re ugly. Yeah they getting weaves from you but they still calling you a nigger behind your back.

Now I know this may be very hard to swallow as so many people think that because we live in 2014 that all of this just magically disappears but I’m hear to tell you that racism is right in your face and you may not want to see it because its masked in cultural appropriation and body imitation but just because somebody wants to look like you doesn’t mean they actually like you.

Speaking on black culture specifically, they love to accept our culture but they have not accepted us as a people. They like to take the little bits and pieces that they think are cool and hip and then leave all the stuff they don’t like and just toss it to the side and then brand it all as appreciation.

Now you can read this and accept or don’t accept but white people that want to be black don’t really want to be black. Granted they want to act black, they want to pretend and they want to play dress up and they probably want that black lifestyle that they see on TV that even the people on TV aren’t actually living because its made to look cool to them, but society does not love PoC.

And I don’t get your movie references and their relevance to anything for one because you’re literally siting movie roles and that just has the implication that there is not actual victimizing going on in real life if you’re bringing up irrelevant fiction.

And no one is telling me I’m a victim. In fact, i rarely even call myself the victim. Pointing out the wrong done and the pain inflicted upon billions of people is doing nothing but that, pointing out the problem. In no way is it holding us back, in no way is it keeping me from doing what I got to do get to where i’m going. 

But ignoring the problem as if it doesn’t exist is insulting to all us that go through it and have gone through it and will go through it in the future. I don’t want my children and my children’s children still living in a world where this gets ignored and played off as innocence. Going through the same struggles to find identity and acceptance. Trying to find out who you are when you have everyone else telling you to be this stereotype and that stereotype.

Pointing out racism and xenophobia and white supremacy and any systematic oppression is not “playing the victim,” its showing you a reality that you still want to deny exists because god forbid the world isn’t as perfect as you were told it was.