chapotraphouse

Honestly, I second the point about being skeptical of some POC too.

Funnily enough, despite what you read in my original post, I am actually bouncing back from what was a very long episode of internalized racism. I used to practically worship white people, and here I am now, doing what seems to be the opposite.

A lot of my internalized racism definitely stemmed from people within my own family, culture, and ethnicity treating me poorly throughout my life, especially in the context of me being queer. While I never grew to love those who personally wronged me, I stopped directing the blame toward my own race and more at what I see to be a more pressing matter: the blood that European imperialism and oppression has on its hands.

It now goes without saying that, if it weren’t for this violent history of white colonizers trying to dominate every other group of people on Earth, I feel like there’d be far more peace than what amounted today.

there are plenty of informants, compradors, etc,

"Skinfolk ain't always kinfolk" is the first lesson we should learn. (Ironically, I learned it from a family that couldn't decide if it wanted to be assimilationist(one side trying to groom me for a military career that would serve as a catapult to high-salary corporate life) or radical(getting huffy with me any time I brought home a white or a Latiné instead of a Black boy or girl), and ended up pulling the ladders up behind them in the first place)