the demographics of any org’s staff are never a coincidence. dig & you’ll almost always find a history of black folks, esp black women and trans folks, leaving (if we were even there in the first place). whether “officially” on record or not, the real reason is always the same. https://twitter.com/ficader/status/1266414500195991552">https://twitter.com/ficader/s...

organizations rely on the revolving door of the token black employee to turn the real problem of anti-blackness in the workplace into a personal conflict, a matter of the individual, rather than acknowledge the reality of institutionalized violence against black people

i say revolving because that employee almost always leaves their job & then is replaced by another black person (or, more often, a complicit non-black poc or white person) unaware of what antiblackness occured before them. the history of violent antiblackness leaves w the worker

this isn’t just ignorance. it’s white & non-black poc protecting their power. to see black ppl as replaceable, to wear us out individually 1 by 1. to wait it out while they exhaust us into leaving. to sacrifice us, knowing no one will care, to avoid accountability. it’s violent.

organizations aren’t made up of just who is present. it’s who has left. who has refused to be employed. who has not worked alongside. it’s the silence. it’s the unsaid.

& if you’re black and disabled? this thread x a lot. exhaustion by way of never being accommodated, of constantly having to remind ppl of the accommodations that the work you do, in your body & your mind, necessitates. of accessibility needs being seen as personal preferences.

if you can’t see the throughlines from these structures to what’s been happening in the last 72 hours, i don’t know what to tell you