continuing to help unhoused neighbors

I said I quit Mutual aid, and then went to Trader Joe's and got an unhoused neighbor some food with what little I had. I reached out for more Mutual aid to help cover it and got it back tenfold, and will continue to pay it forward.

A few days ago I asked a young white couple for money for food, and they told me they don't have cash. I told them I have cash app and venmo and they just stood there stunned. This happened in George Floyd square, by the way, so it goes to show how we've resumed white supremacy in the space just as it goes on in any other place in the United states. Thinking you can give a passive aggressive no like that and assuming that poor people don't have access to technology is white supremacy.

White supremacy has fully re-entered the space. The white liberals that believe black lives matter as long as they respect a few specific black people with it being okay to disregard and disrespect the rest. White people feeling comfortable hitting black people with their vehicles and then yelling things like "Fuck you, nigger!" And their vehicle not being chased down, flipped over, and set on fire. If that had happened downtown, they would have chased that dude down and fucked him up. And now white people being passive aggressive against helping black people in a space that is supposed to be focused on black people. It's no different from the rest of Minnesota or the rest of the United states. There's no point in George Floyd Square existing as a separate space now.

For that young white couple, they are probably two of millions of Americans that will be thrown into instant poverty for something like one medical emergency so they don't understand practicing solidarity, but they don't see that because they've never experienced systemic struggle. It's all the same White supremacy.


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