These people are just waiting for excuses to spew their hatred in a context where others won’t call them out on it because it’s socially acceptable among their peers. They long for the “good ol’ days” and “don’t see color” while denying the impact of white supremacy and their complicit participation.

And then they’ll really sit there and wonder why people like me refuse to cede them trust or brotherhood. I see shit like what they do to Putin, to Jinping, to Jong Un, and all I can think is, “if Kwame Ture existed in this day and age, y’all’d be pushing a photomanip of him as a gorilla, wouldn’t you? If Sankara was still with us, you’d have rendered him as a chimpanzee in a French beret, wouldn’t you? Don’t tell me you wouldn’t, you do it to EVERYONE you consider an enemy.”

These are not allies worth having. They aren’t even neighbors worth having.