@thatqueerkiwi Do ypu have a P.O. box? I found a thrift store near me with as assload of BTS merch and I was going to see if you wanted it if it was still there ☺️
Dean, let me be clear. I understand your instinct for sympathy and your aversion to celebrating any death. As a Black man, however, my reality is shaped by witnessing figures like Charlie Kirk consistently spew hateful rhetoric to a white audience, rhetoric that is then weaponized against my community.
You, as a white man, may feel a abstract sympathy for him. I feel the very real, tangible danger his words incite. People who listen to him are moved to anger and violence against people who look like me.
To use a historical parallel: would you expect enslaved people to mourn the slaveowners who whipped them and hanged their families? While the mechanisms are different, the dehumanizing rhetoric that leads to harm is the same.
You say you can't support us if we wish death upon white supremacists. That is a privilege of your distance from the violence they inspire. For you, it's a philosophical debate. For us, it's about survival.
If your support for my community is contingent on us showing grace to those who wish us harm, then that was never true support to begin with.
my heart is heavy today. i stand with all the ariana fans who were not able to get tickets. life is unfair and cruel sometimes but we persevere and rise above. amen 🖤