The thing I love most about Black Feminism is that it challenges you. This comes as a throughline from African Diaspora culture in general. It does NOT fuck around.

Black feminism grants no quarter. It doesn’t let you have a little bit of oppression as a treat. It doesn’t say “we’ll let that one slide.”

A Black Feminist will call out anyone. They will call out their best friend. They will call out their leaders. They will take down fucking ANYONE.

You don’t have this “Oh they are good so let it slide” bullshit.

And that makes it FUUUUCKING HAAARD.

Because then you start saying shit like “what really am I saying here?” And “what effect does this language have on others?”

Honestly, this is what it was like growing up in my Black family. I felt like fucking EVERYTHING was a test.

And some of that is trauma, I know, but a lot of it is the fact that my Black family would teach me, and then give me as much room as I needed.

And if I was an ass, there was none of this “oh that was a mistake” stuff. It was “Child that was a choice you made and now you have responsibility for that choice.”

I had to OWN my shit.

I just keep thinking about how a society that’s built on that mindset would be so different.

So much of our society is built on this Northern European “assumption of goodness.” Like the whole checks and balances bullshit. That assumes everyone has these good intentions and WANT to work within the expectations.

And then when they don’t, very clearly don’t, we STILL give them the benefit of the doubt. Trump will literally burn this fucking country to the ground before we say “Nah, this cat is fucked, he got to go!”

Like we just keep trusting in the goodness of people and the system to right itself, despite all evidence to the contrary.