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Hello love. If you are reading this, you may have seen something I said taken completely out of context. I ask you to please hear my side of the story prior to making any judgments of me.
Tonight I saw a thread in which a friend was being accused of being a racist. I asked her for her side of the story before making any assumptions, as that is what I believe is fair and just. She explained the situation to me, and it was evident that there was no racial motivation
or malevolent intent behind what she did. So I commented on this thread to defend her good name, just as any good friend would do.
In response to me defending her, I immediately began receiving attacks from people in comments or quote tweets. These were incredibly disrespectful, hurtful, and racist attacks against me personally, my heritage and ethnicity, my appearance, and my ancestors.
I know that I should have ignored them, but I have always stood up for myself and was not going to make tonight an exception. I stated that I do not tolerate disrespect and that my attackers ought to self-reflect on why they were so quick to assume the worst of someone.
The attacks did not stop, but rather escalated to outright physical and spiritual threats against me. One woman in particular threatened to come to my home with her children and assault me.
In response, I stated that if she were to do so, I would call the police, implied that I would press charges to the fullest extent of the law, and cautioned her on the legal ramifications that could ensue if she made good on her threat.
I admit, I should have been more tactful in my wording. However, I wanted to make it clear I am not to be threatened.
In response to this, people began calling me a racist due to the fact that I would call the police on a Black woman, saying that she would be shot and killed. I am well aware of the police brutality suffered by Black Americans.
That will not, nor should it, stop me from calling the police on someone who threatens my safety. I will not jeopardize my own safety to ensure the safety of my attacker. That is just ludicrous. If she does not want to suffer these consequences, then she would be wise to not
follow through with her threat. It’s as simple as that.
The people attacking me didn’t see it this way. They believe she ought to have the freedom to threaten and assault me without consequence. I do not know what kind of warped reality they live in, but I live in the United States, where threat of bodily harm and assault are felonies
for which someone is sent to prison, which includes being removed from their families.
Some people interpreted my wording as a threat against her life when it clearly was not. Rather, it was a warning that I would press charges. The consequences she faces as a result of these charges is frankly not my problem, as I was not the person making violent threats.
People did not respond well to my courage to stand up to her threat. I then proceeded to be tagged in comments calling me by my first and middle name (something I do not have disclosed on Twitter), as well as comments containing a screenshot of my Facebook profile,
home address, and political party affiliation. These comments were made to intimidate and scare me. How members of our community could see these acts of intimidation and blatant threats, yet still accuse me of having “lost my mind” baffles me.
Two women then tagged me in separate comments, both saying that they have launched spiritual attacks on me. One stated that one of the attacks will begin on the eclipse.
I never said anything remotely racist. People are labeling my words as racist because they happen to have been spoken to Black men and women, although having no racial motivation behind them. Simply because a Black person does not like the fact that I stood up to them does not
make me a racist. Simply because someone is a member of an oppressed group does not mean they receive a free pass to make threats and attacks against me.
Despite now being a victim of verbal attacks, physical threats, and spiritual attacks, I am being ridiculed by members of the spiritual community and am being made out to be at fault. It saddens me that members of this community have blindly taken what I said in self defense out
of context and have turned against me in my time of need. I am not in the wrong for standing up to people brewing hatred and cruelty in their hearts.
If you have any questions concerning these events, please do not hesitate to DM me. I am an open book. Thank you for taking the time to hear my story.
