A combo of my own & comrades responses to whitewashed POC & the white folks they're quick to defend/justify being voluntarily connected with - like no one is forcing them into being connected, whatsoever to any type of bigots whatsoever - over past 5 years.
I'm marking it with - them & us exchanges that happened.
Them: You have a lot of Indian friends. You're not worried about being robbed?
Me: I'm worried about people like you, robbing me. I'm not worried about the Indigenous folks trying that on my home.
Them: You hang out with welfare bums! Those Indians get free rides! They should pay taxes too. They need to stop bitching about shit that happened before I was born. I am 65, goddammit!
Me: You're 65 & still ignorant as fuck. I'm 51 & you were around while many of my family was being bombed to death. My friends aren't welfare bums. Most are gainfully employed. They'd stop bitching about injustices if the injustices weren't still happening & if past crimes by white people were actually made fully accountable with real enforced, legal punishments & more land back diplomacy, led by Indigenous folks.
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