White folks: instead of lather, rinse & repeat your tweets for #GeorgeFloyd or about #AmyCooper, here are things you can *actually do* to interrupt that stems from which you benefit.
— brittany packnett cunningham. (@MsPackyetti) May 26, 2020
Compiled by white people who made the effort: https://t.co/z8rydxjNlkhttps://t.co/PJkFBM7dNm
https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920
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Ok I am nonbinary. But socially I am read as a woman. A white woman. And from that standpoint I wanna address white women/people socially read as white women because this is important:
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
we are weapons of white supremacy; in fact, we are THE weapon of white supremacy
Our supposed "purity" is the justification behind acts of racial violence and murder. Lynchings were so often committed because a black man was accused of assaulting/touching/looking at! a white woman. The specter of black men coming after white women was major racist propaganda
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
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And we were not innocent in this of course. This is pretty basic history. Think of "To Kill A Mockingbird," an entire book based on a white woman using the fear of black men's desire to hide her own shame and her father's guilt.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
That isn't made up. That happened.
Emmett Till was murdered because of a white woman who lied. A white woman who has lived her life free from the consequences of her actions, a white woman who caused a child's violent lynching and got away with it.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
White women we know of what we are capable
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And white women, when we call the police on a black person we are knowingly committing a modern-day lynching.#amycooper could very have killed that man, just as Carolyn Bryant Donham killed Emmett Till
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
This is a difficult truth to face, I know. White women, sometimes we (and those of us socially read as women) feel like we aren't as bad as white men because we're, you know, women.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
But when it comes to racism in general and anti-blackness in particular, the dynamic shifts
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and white women we have social power--enough social power to get people killed.
— Elle Has Cats (and ADHD) (@ellle_em) May 26, 2020
So we cannot be passive here. We cannot assume we are doing enough. We have to be very clear that we will not tolerate racism done in our name
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