If your response to all of this is a heartfelt breakdown about why you don't want anyone talking about our lives being in jeopardy all the time because you "prefer positive", well--

You gonna have to be mad.

We've had two deaths and one Almost™ in the same week. Its OK if you aren't engaging because its too much.

But I have a hard time believing that true for people who somehow have the energy to make tweets scolding us for talking about our very real, troubled existence.

Y'all don't have "the spoons" to get into how and why this bullshit is par, normalized, regular occuring, but you got spoons to be boo-hoo mad its on your timeline?

When some of you same clowns have fixed your Twitter fingers to say 'just keep scrolling' for everything else?

K.

We see you.

We are all very, truly sorry that us screaming in pain, agony, and concern has fucked up your vibe, and that you would rather pretend blackness can just be put on pause.

Truly.

It is tiring.
It is aggravating.
It is exhausting.

But how fucking dare you assume that because we speak up about it that we aren't ALL of the above. And then some.

We speak BECAUSE we are tired.

Remember that when you want us to respect how you tired so you DON'T wanna talk.

Don't want this shit "all up and down your timeline"?

Maybe if we addressed brutality in the first place you wouldn't. Which would mean maybe don't talk down to those who are doing the work since you "don't want to."

And let me be clear:

"Don't want to" and "don't have energy to" are not the same thing.

"Don't want to" and "don't have resources to" are not the same thing.

"Don't want to" and "too scared to" are not the same thing.

So don't conflate it.

I'm talking about y'all who dead ass get on this bird app as a way to pretend the world is peachy, and are speaking up explicitly to tell angry black voices "hey, can you keep it down? Like yea its a big deal and a problem, but I just don't want to see it. "

What a privilege.