it has never been more obvious that the media & entertainment industry sees racism as just another form of 'content' to exploit and capitalize on

the memeification of breonna taylor, the wapo blackface outting, all of this is just a giant headline to profit from
'progressive' movies are produced + applauded by white people with almost no BIPOC contribution. stories about company racism gets reduced to "twitter mobs" for sensualization. the list goes on; white people don't want to dismantle racism, they want to build their careers on it
there is probably a white SNL writer writing a skit about trump's kung flu remarks rn. some screenwriter is likely writing another "respectability politics is the only road to freedom" film about BLM. people do not care about being anti-racist, they want to make content about it
i'm not even going to start with influencers posing with signs at protests for .0005 seconds. even in the fight against racism, white people have centered themselves & their gains on the optics of being an "ally"

so that's what's on my mind today, wbu
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