Black People Aren't Looking For Saviours

Hello friends,

This may be activating for some folx (though hopefully not for you if you've been doing anti-racism work for a while).

I have a question.

I want you to examine the furthest reaches of your conscience and memory and ask yourself this: does your anti-racism hide a feeling of superiority? Are you only in it if you feel like you're a saviour?

Then sit with the answer.

I'm not pointing fingers but it's noticeable sometimes in the way some white folx talk about their anti-racism. In the way they approach their actions. And in the behaviour they exhibit if the Black person in question doesn't show enough gratitude or humility when the white person has taken action.

An Early Experience of White Saviourism

Of course, I have an example from my own life. Not the most recent, but one that made an impression on me.

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