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- My name is Chantalle. I'm just a 27 year old African American women trying to get by.
- I doubt anyone will read this, not because I'm black but because I am not a writer or a
- philosopher or a civil rights activist.
- I was fired from my internship yesterday, it was a justified firing. I was working under a
- criminal lawyer, and I attacked a neo-nazi. It wasn't because he called me derogatory names
- or made snide comments about my ass or family. I was upset because he said the next white
- supremacy movement would be founded upon failed black civil movements and modern feminism.
- I was upset, because he's right.
- Y'all know his logic behind it actually made sense to me. Traditional neo-nazi organizations
- and the KKK had gone out of business because "blacks were lynching and killing themselves".
- We were forced into chains centuries ago and now we voluntarily buy our chains. The neo-nazi
- agreed African American's used to be Kings and Queens, otherwise earlier colonies would have
- never bothered with Africa because without the Black Monarchy, Black Slavery would never
- have been so easy or lucrative for the white man.
- Today we are still slaves. Slaves to blacks in gangs, to drugs and to violence and most of all
- to our poverty we share with all colors and cultures.
- Forget conservatives who trash hip-hop culture and demean us to nothing but weed smokers and
- rapers for a second. Liberals genuinely believe the black community needs help in everything we do;
- black college scholarships, black diversity work programs, black lives matter and other civil rights
- movement. Nuh-uh, as if we're that stupid that we need your help at all. Yes, the black community
- is disadvantaged and we're still seeing the side-effects of a deep wound which we call slavery
- and racism. But if we keep calling out our white brothers and sisters and invalidate their issues
- and concerns because they are stereo typically 'privileged', that pushes the idea that either whites
- are naturally superior or that there is a double standard within the black community and the white
- community should apply that dangerous thinking as well. Closet racism, both sides.
- We need to stand alongside all colors and cultures if we are going to stamp out racism. We need
- to acknowledge black-on-black crime as well as white police officers killing innocent black men.
- We need to stop segregating ourselves and learn about different cultures instead of focusing on
- our own. We need to make a change, I'm not sure how we're going to do it but how we are acting
- at the moment isn't working.
- What I did was wrong to the neo-nazi, no amount of violence or vandalism the black community or I
- commit out of rage is going to solve anything at all. Y'all know we'll just create more closet racists
- and prejudice. The black community needs to stop being racist against the white community if we expect
- them to do the same. To show we're serious, we need to change first for them to follow. It isn't going
- to happen the other way round because the white community has already tried that.
- I'm tired of being hated and I'm tired of hating, before we can be loved by other races, us as
- black women, black men and black children need to learn to love ourselves before anyone else can.
- We've made so much progress but still have so far to go, lets not play into their hand and manifest
- hate with our black lives movement, but form an act of love.
- We can do this by advocating real change in the hiring process of police officers and have every officer
- screened for racism no matter whether they're White, Black, Hispanic, Asian or another ethnicity. All
- police. That's how Black Lives Matter makes an impact and a start, we come together, advocate and package
- change and then present it in front of policy makers to enact.
- Showing love to y'all daily and learning from my mistakes. Wish me luck y'all.
- Chantalle A.
- (P.S. Please respect my wish to stay anonymous, I know what happened to MLK and other civil right activists.)
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