Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readOct 8, 2021

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White people have an incredibly long history of projecting all their worst qualities onto the backs of the groups they’ve abused and terrorized. They terrorized Native Americans but it was Indigenous people who got called “Savages”!

It was white people who forced and tortured others to work for them, in the forced labor camps of the South, but it was Black men and women who got called lazy.

Mexican migrant workers do all the agricultural work white people don’t do, and lived here before white people colonized this country, but they’re the ones being referred to as invaders, when they’re just coming back home!

White people committed levels of brutality and atrocities so hellish we don’t even have names for them, but is Black men who get called violent, while they disingenuously ask why people are always talking bad about white men.

They created every sexist, racist, homophobic, and ableist slur used in this country, and then get angry about not being able to still use those slurs!

And no white woman better dare come at me blabbing about their “damsel” innocence. White women were right by their sides, cozying up to the power in the room, and acting as their little helpmates, the entire time all this was happening. They co-signed all of it.

They’re scared alright. They’re scared of all the things they did to others being done to them.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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