This is probably the most important tweet you will ever read regarding racism and you effort to fight back.

And for you, the reader, it is gonna be a tough pill to swallow.

This is also a double edged sword cause it reduces racism and allows you to be a better person overall.
Everyone is listening.

Yes. Thank you.

But everyone is also defending. Themselves to prove that *THEY* are not the racist.

That was never the question.

Example. When I stated that everyone used 'ghetto' to describe All Star Sports, there were sooo many "Well, its not me"
responses and defenses towards who used it and what that even though, I was met with several messages that you were listening to me, you did the opposite. You stopped listening.

I said EVERY DISNEY VLOGGER.

Including myself.

We became a society that normalized racism.
We allowed society to normalize racism and hatred.

Allow me to better explain.

When was the last time you described something as "retarded"? Be honest with yourself.

Do you realize that you have normalized a hatred for people with special needs?

Or tell a friend "oh thats gay
cause thats normalizing hatred and a bias towards gay people and sexuality.

I can feel the twitter fingers firing up now to respond, "I NEVER USE THOSE WORDS"

But if you respond with that, you never ever listened to me.

You are removing yourself from the problem
and refusing to listen and making it "everyone elses problem".

So now you got a big fire called racism now that is "everyone else's problem, but not mine cause Im not racist"

Nobody ever called you one.
When you normalize racism, you make it okay.

To say "Wow, you are the whitest black guy I ever known" to "Is your hair a weave?" or "Smile, so I can see you" or "You aint black if you never.."

these examples I have heard MY ENTIRE LIFE.

And laughed it off cause it was
normal.

Thats not cool dude.

And now, so many people want to listen, but when the solution is at your doorstep, others want nothing to do with the solution cause they are not at fault.

All I ask for is to stop normalizing racism and hate. If you can do that, you win.
It starts at listening, and not defending.

It starts fucking there.

But you cant sit and fight back for something that everyone is guilty off, including yourself.

Start there.
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