You see, people who think that having a Black friend or spouse is a form of activism unto itself will tell you they are doing something that violates the conditions of white supremacy. A white person loving a Black person is de facto not what white supremacy is about, and that’s true. But just because something isn’t actively white supremacist, doesn’t mean it is activism against wh…

Dear White People: Loving A Black Person Isn’t Activism
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Aaminah Shakur
1 min readAug 20, 2017

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Plenty of people “love” and make babies with Black people while fully hating them. This argument that just being with Black people means anything needs to die. See: every slave owner ever

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