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I don't apologize for skin color or use it as an excuse. I go to shops (like shopping locally) that offers me what I need.

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Anonymous wrote:This worries me less than people who are spending $5k at Home Depot rather than Lowe’s.

Why? I just ordered $2000+ worth of stuff at Lowes.

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is knowing that all the virtue-signalers shopping at black-owned businesses today will, in all likelihood, forget about it in a few months and return to their usual shopping patterns.

Anonymous wrote:This has to be a troll post. I do not know the owners of many of the businesses I frequent. I see the workers, but not necessarily the owners unless I’m walking into a 7-Eleven or something. Also it’s just a weird conversation to have. Where did you buy such and such, is the owner of Black?

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Anonymous wrote:What seems fake to you about supporting black-owned businesses?

It's called performative white allyship.

Yep. Same thing as when white people respond with vitriol when someone asks how they can support BLM. I see it all the time on FB. You have these mostly white women attack the person, saying "it's not POC's job to do that! It's traumatic emotional labor!!"

Then a POC will often chime in, saying, "It's actually no problem. Here are some resources."

It's this performative self-flagellation that comes from white guilt. It crosses the line from being supportive to being in the territory of "doth protest too much."

Thanks. There are times when white people should just shut up. Listen twice as much as you speak....

No no no.

Yes, sometimes white people need to shut up. But this idea that white people can NEVER SPEAK is asininely stupid and counterproductive.

It reminds me of the NAACP thread recently. A white person asked if she can go to an NAACP meeting. Someone replied, saying "yes, but don't speak." Another said "white people shouldn't take up that space."

I had to remind them that the NAACP was co-founded by white people. Finally the 1st VP of the DC chapter came on and said "it goes without saying that white people are more than welcome. We have a white person who heads a committee."

Who said never speak? Just don't speak as much. You run all over the space of BIPOC who NEED to be heard. You just always need to be in charge of everything. And that's not what this is about.

JFC. You really seriously miss the point.

Did WEB DuBois tell Mary Ovington to STFU and let him have the majority of the voice? No. She and her colleagues approached him and his colleagues with the idea for the NAACP. They worked together in an equal capacity.

Read and learn:

In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Such eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP. Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln’s birth.

https://www.naacp.org/nations-premier-civil-rights-organization/

Nope. I'm talking about today. Not 100 years ago.

I'm talking about social media.

Completely different beast where white people can just post and repost away and take comfort thinking they are actually making change.

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is knowing that all the virtue-signalers shopping at black-owned businesses today will, in all likelihood, forget about it in a few months and return to their usual shopping patterns.

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Anonymous wrote:What seems fake to you about supporting black-owned businesses?

It's called performative white allyship.

Yep. Same thing as when white people respond with vitriol when someone asks how they can support BLM. I see it all the time on FB. You have these mostly white women attack the person, saying "it's not POC's job to do that! It's traumatic emotional labor!!"

Then a POC will often chime in, saying, "It's actually no problem. Here are some resources."

It's this performative self-flagellation that comes from white guilt. It crosses the line from being supportive to being in the territory of "doth protest too much."

Thanks. There are times when white people should just shut up. Listen twice as much as you speak....

No no no.

Yes, sometimes white people need to shut up. But this idea that white people can NEVER SPEAK is asininely stupid and counterproductive.

It reminds me of the NAACP thread recently. A white person asked if she can go to an NAACP meeting. Someone replied, saying "yes, but don't speak." Another said "white people shouldn't take up that space."

I had to remind them that the NAACP was co-founded by white people. Finally the 1st VP of the DC chapter came on and said "it goes without saying that white people are more than welcome. We have a white person who heads a committee."

Who said never speak? Just don't speak as much. You run all over the space of BIPOC who NEED to be heard. You just always need to be in charge of everything. And that's not what this is about.

JFC. You really seriously miss the point.

Did WEB DuBois tell Mary Ovington to STFU and let him have the majority of the voice? No. She and her colleagues approached him and his colleagues with the idea for the NAACP. They worked together in an equal capacity.

Read and learn:

In 1908, a deadly race riot rocked the city of Springfield, the capital of Illinois and resting place of President Abraham Lincoln. Such eruptions of anti-black violence – particularly lynching – were horrifically commonplace, but the Springfield riot was the final tipping point that led to the creation of the NAACP. Appalled at this rampant violence, a group of white liberals that included Mary White Ovington and Oswald Garrison Villard (both the descendants of famous abolitionists), William English Walling and Dr. Henry Moscowitz issued a call for a meeting to discuss racial justice. Some 60 people, seven of whom were African American (including W. E. B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Mary Church Terrell), signed the call, which was released on the centennial of Lincoln’s birth.

https://www.naacp.org/nations-premier-civil-rights-organization/

Anonymous wrote:What bothers me is knowing that all the virtue-signalers shopping at black-owned businesses today will, in all likelihood, forget about it in a few months and return to their usual shopping patterns.

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Anonymous wrote:What seems fake to you about supporting black-owned businesses?

It's called performative white allyship.

Yep. Same thing as when white people respond with vitriol when someone asks how they can support BLM. I see it all the time on FB. You have these mostly white women attack the person, saying "it's not POC's job to do that! It's traumatic emotional labor!!"

Then a POC will often chime in, saying, "It's actually no problem. Here are some resources."

It's this performative self-flagellation that comes from white guilt. It crosses the line from being supportive to being in the territory of "doth protest too much."

Thanks. There are times when white people should just shut up. Listen twice as much as you speak....

WTF with this “BIPOC” stuff? Stupid sounding, inaccurate made up name. Only Native Americans are “indigenous” to this country.

No no no.

Yes, sometimes white people need to shut up. But this idea that white people can NEVER SPEAK is asininely stupid and counterproductive.

It reminds me of the NAACP thread recently. A white person asked if she can go to an NAACP meeting. Someone replied, saying "yes, but don't speak." Another said "white people shouldn't take up that space."

I had to remind them that the NAACP was co-founded by white people. Finally the 1st VP of the DC chapter came on and said "it goes without saying that white people are more than welcome. We have a white person who heads a committee."

Who said never speak? Just don't speak as much. You run all over the space of BIPOC who NEED to be heard. You just always need to be in charge of everything. And that's not what this is about.