I really, really heard you about white people losing control and expressing themselves while expecting poc to be therapists or support their emotions. I also really appreciated what you said about people who’ve been abused being policed out of self-expression or talking about the abuse or how it makes them feel.

Oppression and abuse have so much in common.

I learned a lot from this about my own experiences of abuse, of colorism within my community and how that’s impacted me. Thinking about watching white men totally lose control while everyone else just ignored them, whereas if I basically express an emotion about being harmed then I’m condemned..I feel so resentful.