Dear White People.

No. Do not turn to TEEN FICTION when it comes to being educated on the systemic issues with racism. If you need simplistic children's fiction to help you empathize, you have bigger problems.

Look to NONFICTION about black issues that talk about the brutality https://twitter.com/district12bitch/status/1265809340839063554

the murders, and the goddamn failings of the American system on black people. Read about REAL people, real families, and real survivors of the system that keeps failing us over and over again. I'm sorry, but these are not the only four black authors out there speaking out and

creating the literature you need to understand the facts of the country you live in and what it does to your neighbors, coworkers, and friends who are living right beside you too goddamn afraid and powerless of how bad it will be for them to step in when one of them is being

hurt! Read Toni Morrison's essays, read historic evidence, read the studies shown on how the laws have affected and disadvantage both your fellow human beings and whites as people living right beside it with fuckin' cataracts in their eyes.

Read something that tells you exactly

what is happening, not give you a safe distant view of the suffering and issues where you can just sit and say "omg I feel so bad" when tomorrow you'll be on twitter on the next thing feeling vindicated that educated your poor ignorant fellow peers by making a book suggestion or

two to your followers. Read the REAL accounts. Stop distancing yourself as one of the good ones because you read an author of color or two or three and do something about your people who are doing this.

black fiction is not for you to read and feel like "omg I understand" its

for us who have never seen exactly who were are represented on a page accurately. Black NonFICTION is for you. For the white people who don't know how to be an ally but say they want to. Educate yourself on the realities and then look at why everyone heard this man say "I can't

breathe," and none of his people could do a damn thing! Why a white woman calling a cop in a situation where she was breaking the law, and feel secure that she would not be the one in cuffs.

Miss me with this "educate yourself" bullshit and subject yourself to the real shit.

Good night, sleep tight, and HANDLE your people!

-signed-

A Tired Black Person.