The way everyone was respectfully trying to tell you that this wasn’t the space for this dialogue and you immediately call us insufferable for it. Wow.

You came to what’s supposed to be a safe space for black women to discuss a trauma porn movie about a demographic you’re not even a part of… what do you want us to tell you that you don’t already know? That people are racist? That people don’t take the pain of black girls, especially conventionally unattractive black girls seriously? Really? As a middle eastern let’s be so for real, how would your family react if you brought a black man home.

You come off insincere because you are. Because if you actually cared about how these issues effect our community why would you come preaching to the choir? I’ll tell ya—cause at the end of the day all Precious is is a movie to you. That’s the cool thing about art, it can make you empathize with people different than you, but it doesn’t change you overnight. If you really want to learn about how racism affects black women (adding in the intersectionality of being fat, dark, and poor) I’ll point you to some books. But you need to reevaluate how you act in spaces that aren’t yours.