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I know "allies" aren't real because Black women fight for everyone else and we've never had a special title for it.
"Allyship" is only a thing when white people want unearned credit for little investment or work.
We've gotta move past the "ally" era of valorizing white people's disproportionately small contributions to end racial and gender injustice. It centers whiteness and ultimately does more harm than good.
I'm not suggesting we all adopt the terms of whiteness. I'm suggesting that we stop using whiteness as a model for doing the work. https://twitter.com/peace2u12/status/1277603004217253889?s=19
Also, this. The setting apart is a process meant to add special worth to white people's social justice work. As if it is somehow more important and harder. https://twitter.com/DearSplenda/status/1277603445571227648?s=19
Zora Neale Hurston told us that Black women were seen as the "mules uh de world" and, here we are, now calling white people "allies" for co-opting, watering down, and repackaging that work.
I feel like writing a book about this is probably a good move.
