There’s a White Women Privilege Version of ‘This is America’ Because of Course There is

What is it in this world that some white women, excuse me – a majority of white women cannot get their own sh@#. Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah… You have a problem that Black America has been suffering unspeakable travesties for centuries and still, today cannot have the pleasure of simply sitting in a Starbucks without getting arrested that you had to go ahead and be “inspired”, and bite off of something else to make it your own. Sorry, that is not how the world works. I am a woman, I am Black, I am also Latinx. I know the struggle is real out in these streets; fighting to get just a portion of what men get, not being safe in our own bodies or being told when and what to do with them. Being harassed, hollered at, taken advantage of, making less money but needing to be razor sharp, 10 million times smarter and look good, I get it. But just because Childish Gambino made a video that made you think, does not mean it is for you to make your own. It’s its own thing; and if you were truly inspired, you would know the point is to MAKE YOUR OWN SH#$.

There is a lot going on in the world right now — scratch that, there has always been a lot going on in the world, and there is always noise to distract us. When Childish made his video, it was the spectacle of that noise. It was so precise, so layered, so involved in media, Black life, survival, and distraction that this world is predicated on. How easily forces can distract us when reality hurts, and how the world around us always tr…