The way black people have invented literally every modern music genre and still have no recognition or respect given outside of hip hop and rap is really all the evidence you need to understand how deep anti blackness sits in our cultural history, not even mentioning the way pioneering black artists had their lives and careers absolutely pillaged to enrich white producers, artists, and labels
y'all will circlejerk yourself to the mysticisms of faeries and elves in european countries for centuries and take it as fact but the second native americans ask you to respect our spirituality and culture suddenly you're all aetheists
'Nuff said...
Imagine an alien comes to visit and you go on a camping trip. Be it some adventure where you have to hike into the mountains to find an ancient relic or just as friends. You’re in America and you hear a blood curdling scream. The alien jumps up from the fire but you have to grab their hand and tell them to sit back down.
“SOMEONE NEEDS HELP! what are you doing?!”
They panic wondering why a human wouldn’t want to help a fellow human.
“It’s not human.”
They would be bewildered but ultimately trust you as this is your native planet and you likely know best.
You explain to them that it was likely a mountain lion. Another apex predator of the planet that can make human screams.
And depending if this was another part of the world some birds can call your name or mimic children/people cryin.
“Your planet is terrifying. How do you know the difference between your own and what wants to kill you?”
“Just do”
It’s part of our evolution. It’s why we fear the dark and monsters under our bed. We slept in trees once and predators roamed below. We can’t see in the dark but predators can. We may be super predators but we were once prey too.
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