This is vital for us Armenian Americans to remember. Our whiteness may be situational and conditional, but it absolutely was first bestowed on us as an act of anti-Black racism.

We may know we are not white to everyone, but we also need to know our whiteness came from racism. https://twitter.com/KosherSoul/status/1300248129841827841
This has a couple of implications. One, the truth is white racists will chuck ethnic Armenians over the edge the minute we stop being convenient to them or their anti-Black, anti-Latinx, etc. bigotry.

And two, even though we carry historical trauma, we benefit from white racism.
So it's 100% on us to recognize how we've benefited, and especially *why* we've benefited from white racism. It sure wasn't because of altruism.

The people who stoke up racism and bigotry are not our allies They are not our friends. They never have been. And they never will be.
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