Omar MooreJan 19, 2023
Honest responses, please: If you are a white person reading this—do you think about being white? #Mastodon #BlackMastodon
Show threadV.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)

@popcornreel Not all the time, only when I got to. I live in Wyoming and there are times whole weeks or months go by, I don't see anybody who isn't either white or a close enough friend it doesn't matter.

I write fantasy, and some of my fantasy settings I can't say "real life racism" doesn't exist, and some of them I can't say that it does, and either way I feel like there's an obligation to write them in a way that respects real-life historical struggles I don't and can't ever understand.

Jan 20, 2023 at 2:23amWeb
Show threadV.K. Farfalle 🦋 (He/Him)Jan 20, 2023

@popcornreel I am intersectional in a bunch of ways, so I can say "yeah, at least I'm not..." and recognize the facets of white privilege I still got, but it doesn't hit the same as it would if I weren't raised up in poverty, drugs, abuse, and crime.

My faith's got a Nazi problem. Got to think a lot about how to explain to (mostly marginal) young people there's a difference between "Germanic heritage" and "white skin" and "racist bullshit" and how being racial takes you away from being tribal.