Its called 13th. Its on netflix but I watched it for free on youtube. Its about how racism evolved over the years and became less of overt racism and more abstract

Yeah true. Reddit always just leaves me feeling mad. I just miss the NOVELTY of it. And thats why its hard for me to switch to alternatives (Commet over Discord, Lemmy over Reddit) Im such a sucker for gimmicks, I truly am. I like that I could dress up my lil reddit snoo and that it had R/place. It was fun, the alteratives, because they are acting as a replacement to an already established website, they dont have as many gimmicks if that makes sense. I dunno if thats for the best or not tho.

Hey man, after watching on the documentaries with her. She took it well up until it started mentioning stuff about trump and then she got frustrated.

I think I’m gonna listen to your advice, I said this in another thread but its just not my place to try and get her to “change her mind” I’m like- no better than the nutjob conservatives that will fight tooth and nail just to get someone to think the way they do.

She did enjoy the documentary up until the end, and at this point I just… feel bad.

I apologized to her after the vid, she had made a comment during our discussion that “I only watched this with you cus I wanted you to feel comfy and cus it was Black history month, but I feel like you lead me into this wanting to talk about Trump again” and that’s when i realized I’m crossing a line I shouldn’t. That comment made me realize that I was being a bit of a bitch… Even if I was coming from a place of good intentions.

I have a tendency to get like this, I’ll get frustrated or upset when I cant change someone’s mind on something, I’ll become obsessed with trying to prove my point that nothing else seems to matter anymore… I gotta stop that, its just not a good trait to have. Like sure its nice to talk about stuff and get my point across but at some point I gotta let it go and accept her as she is. I gotta start accepting people as they are, I had the same issue with my mom (she’s not MAGA whatsoever, just stubborn lol) and learn to live with that.

So i finally got to watch 13th with her and she took it well up until the end when they started showing clips n shit of trump speaking like a racist. She is open to every other thing except changing her mind about Trump. if I try to discuss anything in relation to him with her she gets extremely frustrated and I’m not sure how to get around that <:/

I think I’m just gonna stop mentioning politics to her and just- let her come to her own conclusions from now on and stop trying to spoonfeed stuff about trump to her. At this point I feel greasy doing it, like I’m going out of my way to try and get her to think like me and I should really not do that. She doesn’t push her opinions onto me so it’s just not right for me to push mine onto her. I should listen to what one other person said and just enjoy the friendship I have with her

I mean… I just worry for her dude… Her dad already gog laid off just 2 nights after they were talking to me about how “Trump was gonna make more jobs n fix all the layoffs” or whatever tf. and the company her dad works for LOBBIED WITH TRUMP to get him elected.

Shes super sheltered and just knows absolutely nothing about black history which I feel is a problem. At the very least I just her educated about black issues n shit cus her and her mom mentioned some shit about being “Colorblind” and just- as a darkie myself im just not about that 😭

Mmmm true… How do I not sound preachy?

I was friends with her for 4 years and only found out just 1-2 years ago when I mentioned Kamela. She doesnt blurt her politics unless you ask her to

Nahh she isnt the type to yell “WOKE” at stuff. Thank god. She’s just SEVERELY in the dark about shit.

She knows nothing about black history month, celebrities like Beyonce, Dolly Parton or Kanye; I thought she was fucking with me when she said “Isnt West a direction?” when I mentioned his name.

The only things she knows about are Politics and Roleplay (We roleplay gay shit on discord and that’s how we met lmfao)

So “woke stuff” doesnt phase her cus we roleplay “woke” stuff all the time with Monster boys on discord 🤣🤣 Her family is also aware and is super chill about it.

But I can and I did. I’ve already gotten her to back down on her ideas of Book bannings and Trans people and got her to admit being wrong in somethings.