All right, y'all, it's truth time.

The fact of the matter is we are not going to make it without each other.

And I know, I know, we're living in a dystopian world right now, where all the things

we thought we knew don't seem all that true and all the people we thought

we could trust. Yeah, we're looking at them sideways. And listen, some of that is deserved. But y'all,

all of these jokes about calling ice on people and going back to Starbucks or sitting back and

putting our feet up when people are suffering, Yeah, that's not going to work.

The most impactful freedom fighters have always understood that we cannot become that which we

are fighting. I know it's tempting. I know we want to get these jokes off and send these memes back

and forth. And I understand that these raw emotions are coming from valid

places. But white supremacy would love nothing more than for us to pick at each other instead

of the systems and the institutions that it uses to hold all of us down. That doesn't mean we're not

going to have to have some real talk with each other. That doesn't mean we're not going to have

to hold people to the highest standards even and especially when we love them. Y'all are going to have to

uproot misogy noir and anti-blackness from all of your spaces. Remember, misogy noir is the

combination of racism and sexism that is unique specifically to black women. Thanks, Moia Bailey,

for that term.

You're going to have to sit back and recognize that platforms don't come without responsibility.

As somebody who tried my very best to hold a lot of space for nuanced, lived experience, and people's feelings, it is weird as hell to get on the internet right now and see accounts to spend a lot of time telling us that Trump and Kamala Harris were the exact same

and that the fascism was already here and it can't get any worse now posting the truth about

Trump and all of the videos and nominations and evidence that is coming out that yes, in fact,

it can and likely will get worse under the white guy.

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