Capitalizing On Skin Color and BLM

This facade has to stop — Selling injustice for profit is heinous

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Here’s the thing: I’m fed up with seeing articles about black women explaining how they deal with white supremacy. Why? Because some of them are not doing it to raise awareness. Some have never faced true white supremacy at all. I’d fall for it for the first two or three articles.

But after seeing 10 articles from the same people that exclusively use words like “white supremacy”, “black woman”, “racism”, “privilege” and such in their titles, it gets really old. They write about nothing else. If no political topic is possible, they come up with something less racist and twist it a little to make it sound a little more racist for the audience. And it gets even weirder.

Things like “they only hired you because you’re black”, like really? Did anyone ever say something like that? Wasn’t it usually the other way around? First, you make headlines writing how white people prefer to hiring white people (which is a legit problem at that point), then they give in and offer high profile jobs to black people, now you can continue capitalizing on that same topic with a new title in your next article, great!

No one in Europe would ever use such a phrase. No one in Europe cares if you’re black. If you get a job, you…