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BIPOC Solidarity is a Sham
Setup to make us fail while we waste our time
Predating the pandemic, before the murder of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and foreshadowing any and all conversations on Robin DiAngelo’s book “White Fragility,” I’ve been thinking that the non-Black people of color included in Black conversations have been making the fight for (the fallacy of) racial reconciliation frustratingly futile.
It was getting weird when I was having what seemed like whispered, back-alley conversations with Black friends of mine on how uncomfortable it was for us to listen to our Asian peers describe how they finally understood what it meant to be marginalized when #StopAsianHate became an occurance and a hashtag. It was weird when none of those Asian peers liked to point out that more positive legal, national, and social attention was going towards the recent incidents of Asian hate than to the historical and present reality of Black people being murdered… for being Black.
Attempting to lump all of these experiences together only breeds contempt and disrespect.
Unsettling are the anecdotes about instances of being looked at funny as a means to relate to what I, as a Black woman, could possibly go through on a daily basis. These conversations with my…
