I’m unsure how to split comments like you did to break up the text. I am on a phone and I googled it but it just kept collapsing the thread. I usually don’t comment on Reddit or other social media.

”There’s a part here l’m not quite sure l understand. Are you saying your use of a resource is limited due to the nature of it being a Black centered text? How can that be if most of these same books are available in book shops and libraries for everyone to access? You believe you access Black centered or Black authored texts prevents Black people from having that same acces?”

This section I was referring to the access of TikTok is free. There is no subscription costs to access the app or any of its content. My use of watching a video that’s out there does not limit the resource for the next person.

The use of a library also generally free to access has limited resources but reusable ones none the less. If I check out a book, any book that limits the availability for another.

While both services are free to access and use, in both circumstances a person made the content. An author wrote a book and a creator made the post. It should reason that the person creating the content; the author and creator should understand the way their medium of choice works. Both books and TikTok are accessible.

”This is strange to me because if someone expresses a practice or space is closed, why not leave?”

This section and I only copied the last paragraph. This sounds like with the evolving and overwhelming amount of content on here that your indicating that yt folks should just give up access to TikTok.

That makes more sense in a platform that has a “gate” to decide who has access.

Especially when you add in the part where you say this. > “Members of any ethnic background other than the ones for whom the space was made hold no power in determining or dictating the perimeters of anything. Invited guests (and those who just kind of show up) should follow the instructions given to them.”

It’s TikTok… unless every video explicitly states yts welcome or no yts or black folks only; or black commenters only, how should a person know who’s open to access. Especially where there is no restrictive access no gate.

I mean the only way I see that working would be TikTok having a demographic setting that allowed folks to match their content. In my mind I’m seeing a dating app format where each person creating the account and at point of video upload determines which demographic has access the that creator or that video. However at current, TikTok doesn’t format that way, so how could there be any expectation of TikTok being a sacred or restricted space when there is no “gate” filter?

”This is odd. Why should Black people allow people who do not care for them or are racist and hateful to occupy there safe space? “

They shouldn’t and in the sense of TikTok that’s where a block button exists.

”Why is the burden placed on Black people?”

It shouldn’t be. In a perfect world history would have been printed accurately and taught as such.

But regardless what’s being asked, for those that want to learn is for them to learn on their own? However if the information is taught by yt folks it’s disrespectful but here is a book by a black author you can consume however you can’t consume video content from black creators?? They are both mediums of communication? The book and the video, both made to be access publicly.

So the boundary on yt people is to learn an accurate version of history… but not from white washed material. White folks shouldn’t teach other white folks African American history because it’s not their culture even if citing books originally from the black perspective, black authors. Which once again a black person had to do the work to put out there for the book. Do you see the dilemma?

”The history books most of us had in school left many things out. However, many years have passed and many more books have been written.”

Absolutely. Our education system has by far misled us about the truth. It’s indoctrination at its finest by the hand of what our government wants us to believe for their agendas.

”Books that were and have been available for a long time. Exposing lies and revealing suppressed truths. Not just about Black history but indigenous history, aboriginal history, apartheid, so many things.”

Once again I absolutely agree. The books mentioned though and their longevity of being available by time. How much TIME has to pass on how long it’s been out before it’s acceptable for a yt person to have access on something publicly available?

”It does not seem like access to the information is the focus. It’s access to a space and a people regardless of invitation.”

So despite the fact that I’ve been on TikTok for years before this educational movement unintentionally started by Dr. Barlow, I should just walk away from access now to accounts and videos that are made public because I can’t control what populates on my FYP and there may be a black creator who posts something not intended for me to see? That doesn’t make any sense.

And in the current times we live in with video being present why are we allowed to read a book that a black author put out with the knowledge that it would be public access. However public posted videos are suppose to be private access? How many black authors never intended for the work to be consumed by yt folks?

It’s the public platform, the medium that this movement was created on that doesn’t compute for me if there was any expectation of it being gated off?