What I Wore This Week

This post is going to take a little different direction. I was trying to take the high road and wasn’t going to mention it. I was going to talk about something else, but I realize that I am not very good at taking the high road.

Sigh. I received a comment today on Friday night’s blog post that both shocked me and confused me.

It was about an article that I had posted in the article round-up. Honestly, I had no idea which article she was referring to until I went through them all.

I don’t usually think “how can I piss off the Karens today” when selecting articles, but now I’m going to try harder to.

So thank you for that.

This article was from Zora. Zora is a Medium publication for women of colour.

This woman asked me to give her a heads up in the future for any articles from this publication because as a white woman she does not feel welcome there.

You don’t feel welcome there? I guarantee you felt fine about the article until you exited out and saw the publication.

My first response was “what the fuck”.

I thought maybe is was some kind of bad sarcastic joke gone wrong.

Then I realized that she was serious, so I had to step back a few minutes to process before I replied.

At that moment I was both so flabbergasted and incensed and my first response would have contained a myriad of swear words which would have been the focus instead of the response.

So I waited and gathered my thoughts.

My response to her comment is on that post and it is not eloquent, but it is how I feel.

I thought that I made my stance on BLM clear. And my feelings towards white privilege and white fragility.

I have zero tolerance for bullshit. I am way too old for that crap.

So if I have not made myself clear, here it is:

I will never bend to the demands of someone when it comes from a place of white privilege.

An article from a Black publisher about retail stores does not need a trigger warning. That is not a trigger for you, that is your racism showing.

I would like to believe that this is a safe space for people, so check your privilege at the door or don’t bother visiting.

It’s that easy.

I responded on the original post, so to the person who made that comment if you are reading this don’t bother responding back.

There is no point.

I will never agree with you.

I will not coddle you so your whiteness is protected and you feel welcome.

You are not welcome.

I am not a part of your white women’s club, although for some reason you seemed to think I was.

Please kindly fuck off.

I mean that in the absolute NOT nicest way possible.

Cheers,
Sara

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