#all yall wanna do is treat us like jesters any chance you get

[oyasumire]

This has been weighing on my mind for a long time and it's black history month so I don't mind getting into it, but it really is actually so annoying how so many nonblack people only bother bringing up black people when it's time to joke or meme or whatever. Like, do yall not notice that yall do that? All the time? Like sure, you occasionally reblog posts to spread awareness about discrimination and police killings etc and that's nice I guess, but beyond that, do you actually take the time to be conscious of how you are engaging with black people? Do you take the time to be conscious of whether you're actually treating us like people and not just another source of entertainment? Because, genuinely, most of yall do not.

And I've grappled with the fact that maybe I'm being too sensitive but it really is shit like scrolling through a nonblack person's blog and seeing that the only time they regularly post about black people beyond our suffering is when we're reduced to a joke that drives me insane. Like all your memes and reaction images and whatever are filled with black people, but yall can't post about us in any other context? Even with the most mainstream black people, yall can't post about Mariah Carey except when it's time to joke about Christmas? Yall can't post about Earth, Wind, and Fire except when it's time to joke about September 21st? Yall can't post about Megan thee Stallion except when it's time to joke about her being a weeb or laugh at her old tweets? Yall can't post about any other rappers except when it's time to joke about rap blog parodies (that more often than not aren't even run by actual black people either)?

Like it's just crazy to me how we are in 2024 and nonblack people still will not reevaluate the way they interact with us, like yall really do not understand how isolating and sickening it feels to know the only time yall will talk about people like me is when you want to reinvent minstrelsy, and then do nothing to understand why that's a problem.

#being black on the internet really is the most exhausting experience hands down my god #all yall wanna do is treat us like jesters any chance you get