I went to Khalid’s concert yesterday, and honestly, I was disappointed by the lack of support from our community. It feels like we’re often so quick to criticize, nitpick, judge, and tear each other down instead of showing up, showing love, and rallying behind one another.
This is a Black queer man who came to Atlanta during Pride Month to share his art, his talent, and his story. Yet the support in the room didn’t reflect that.
As a community, we talk a lot about visibility, representation, and creating spaces for ourselves. But those things require more than words… they require action. They require us to show up for each other. We can’t keep asking for support while withholding it from our own.
We have to do better.
Niggas makin fun of Jay Z Afro lets me know how detached with blackness ppl are, even other black ppl. Nigga YOU have the same hair, you tellin me you don’t even know how your own hair works? Makin fun of black ppls hair shows you how white supremacy worked on ALL of us.
Working in education showed me 1st hand kids desire & flourish under structure once they become used to it. They don't like chaos, they like routines they can trust. That's safety to them.
it sounds dumb but it took me until 30 to internalize that people just say anything and it behooves you to ignore them and focus on what they do and how what they do makes you feel.