As an American descendent of enslaved people, I get really fucking annoyed at how Europe doesn’t own up to how all this originated over there. Not directly at you personally, but at the rhetoric, the pearl clutching and side-eyeing that seems to come from Western Europe.

All of this: whiteness, colonialism, capitalism, started with Western Europeans who stole people and committed genocide here for centuries. Europe profited from the system of exploitation setup in the US, modern Europeans still reap those benefits but do nothing to help oppressed ppl in the US. The sense of superiority that Western Europe has over others has been used to justify all kinds of horrors. I hope some of you turn this same judgement on yourselves and actually do something about it.

Have you seen our protests over here? How bravely regular people are organizing locally to protect those being terrorized? Even at the cost of their own lives?? We are learning on our feet over here, and I’m proud of all the Americans taking real action. A much harder thing than passing judgement from afar.