Stop Dying for My Sins

What we want are allies, not saviors.

Allies stand along side each other as equals in their own regard while saviors stand up for people.

If we as people of color really want to achieve liberation from oppression under a white supremacist society, we need to learn to stand on our own two feet and fight for our own liberation. We need to do this ourselves. If we continue to ask and rely on the white man for our own liberation, all we're going to get is bureaucratic red tape and hand-outs. We'll never achieve liberation on our terms because the white man can't see liberation on our terms, but can see liberation only on his terms and as long as we're playing by the white man's rules, we'll always be fighting an uphill, bound-for-watered-down-failure struggle.

White liberals who don't check their privilege, in my opinion, are worse than the white person who is out-right racist. As people of color, we have to understand that white liberals aren't doing us a favor with their single-issue non-profits going to save Africa bullshit. They're crippling us because they're confining us to single-issue non-profit crutch reform in lieu of real revolution - once again, this is liberation on their terms which translates to our continual oppression.

Real liberation means divesting from whiteness. This means revolution - not reform - because the system itself is the problem. The system serves the interest of the White capitalist, therefore, we need to do away with the current system and as a community - white allies included, envision a society that we want to see that serves the specific needs of the community where everyone has an active say and everyone has access to visibility.