Too close / Too far

About 10 years ago a person named Devon Marie Machuca (aka Ender Darling) was arrested for stealing (and selling) human remains from a Black majority cemetery in New Orleans. They would end up serving 2 months.

Holt Cemetery is what's called a potter's field. It is a cemetery that caters to the poorest of the poor, people whose families are unable to pay for the burial of their loved ones. This cemetery is in use today, and the majority of people buried there are impoverished Black people.

Desecrating Black corpses is not funny. Selling pieces of deceased human beings is not funny. I understand that this story is a piece of tumblr lore, but this is not a hee ha silly story. Those were real human beings. People with family and friends who mourned their deaths. People who were too poor to be buried anywhere else, and were instead brought to Holt Cemetery.

Have some respect for the way you talk about the deceased. You and I both know that if this person stole remains from some frufru white cemetery that the reaction would be very different.

hi im not like tryna put u on blast here but ur one of over a dozen white people leaving tags like this on this post and im tryna make sure yall understand these phrases above are not inherently denouncing being soft or feminine or implying a higher level of beastness….like its the very opposite…..outsiders who are nonblack are assigning aggression or dominance and animalistic qualities to phrases like “on fleek”the proper response to that is not to go “yeah fuck that im a hairy monster in the swamp!” the proper response is “hey, these phrases are coined by black women and all they mean is feeling good about ones self and staying true to yourself / ur values and desires” when a nonblack assigns hostility and vitriol to aave u should not retort with “YEAH! i am nasty and aggressive!!!” bc they are only assigning such things bc they see blackness as inherently below them

something not being said in bad faith doesnt remove the racism from it, there is no miscommunication, you can say things that are harmful without intending to, and pointing out how unintentional statements can cause harm actively makes ppl question and change their behavior thats like, common sense…..

the idea of purity being linked to whiteness is an intentional aspect of white supremacy, aave gets coopted often and then mocked / devalued after nonblacks cannibalize it specifically because of white supremacy, it is not an accident that this frequently only happens with phrases and words coined by black people, if purity and feminity and docilness is linked to whiteness what does that mean for anything linked to blackness?

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