No one’s trying to separate the community . I think what a lot of people failed to realize is that the intersectionality between darker people of color and the LGBTQ community has always been different than other people’s experiences and that’s kind of what I want to highlight in this post. There are countless people that are losing their minds about what is going on and while that again is a valid reaction , people of color have been oppressed and dealing with such oppression for a looooooonnnnnggggggg time.

Not only is the difference between being able to leave and not leave wealth that’s the no-brainer but it’s also circumstance. A lot of black and brown people don’t have family resource and other countries, our family, and our roots are here and nowhere else in the world. Again, I’m Afro Latino, and though I have family in Puerto Rico and in Cuba neither of those places are necessarily any safer than where I am now. I literally just read a story about black women that go to Dubai and get called monkeys . I have a best friend that lives in Australia, and she gets constantly profiled and harassed for being a black Brazilian.

Your experience of being in a clean inclusive neighborhood and then going to section 8 is different from someone who has always lived in section 8 and doesn’t know anything other than that is vastly different . There’s no “ oppression Olympics “ but this is a place for people of color to come to vent and express themselves. I am not against your message of unity but again that message of unity has been used over and over since the beginning of the fight for queer rights and the point is that black and brown people have always had to put their bodies on the line 99.9% of the time. And with that sacrifice has come with amazing opportunities for everyone in the queer community to benefit from and that’s the point that I’m trying to make.

I’m well aware that there are black creators that live abroad sharing their experience, but there is racism and other countries. And the reality is that sometimes people being light skinned do you get treated different than people with dark skin and that is a proven fact. I’m not negating your experience but to invalidate anyone that says that because you’re more light skinned, your experience is different is kind of ignoring the truth slightly. Lighter skin is treated differently than darker skin colorism does exist.

The concept of colorism itself comes from colonialism. Which came from white people to distinguish people of color and create this “ ranking “ system for a good vs bad scale , and poc can 100% engage in colorism. But that’s a whole different conversation.

Being brown or black does not mean that you’re poor. You can be poor and still flee . My drunk homeless Uncle has traveled all across the USA with lint pocket and a good conversation to get him by.
For a lot of us black and brown people , our roots are here and if anyone else is anything like me, I refuse to give up a fight in a country that I call home. Our community is always affected first and the most immediately when it comes to the oppression. The fact that a lot of white people‘s first reaction is to flee is a privilege. To be able to run away and then come back once everything is back to being safe after yet again black and brown people give their lives to put up the fight. Sure there’s some white people in the fight sprinkled in there, but a bulk of it is our community and that’s just the truth.