Speaking plainly, I know a lot of black people who work to spin narratives for white people’s comfort. I use to be one.

Why would you ever have to fight to be seen as more than a victim?

Why would you ever have to fight to be seen in all of your humanity and complexity?

Just another rock on the same mountain.

Scream at white people until you are blue in the face from lack of oxygen and fall to your death for all I care.

“ I’m human ! I’m more than a victim ! See my humanity! See my complexity!”

I’ll keep climbing and you can stay behind on your complexity hill.

White Supremacy will be scaled and leveled.

Then you won’t have to fight to be seen as anything.

I’m very suspicious of anyone who ever so slightly eases in the direction of people returning to complacency.

I mean don’t you think other black people know that they are more than a victim or a racialized narrative?

You think we all forgot or didn’t know we are complex human beings?

No, it was never us who didn’t know.