TickTock drops the ball again…

JD Fuller MSW, LCSW
2 min readFeb 5, 2023

--

Photo by benjamin hershey on Unsplash

Apparently there is a trend on social media for Black history month that portrays Black kids setting up white kids to “do things” for them, walking on their backs, etc to portray retribution for enslavement. This is alarming on so many levels.

To name a few, this trend minimizes the abuse and the unbearable misery our ancestors lived. This trend minimizes the racial trauma of enslavement then and now. It minimizes the genocide known as enslavement. It minimizes the abuse, rape, torture, murder and horror that our ancestors tried to survive.

Furthermore, it lends itself to a limited perspective for white bodies that Black people will accept the weakest offering of retribution as an opportunity to heal from the legacy of pain and marginalization. This does nothing but temporarily relieve liberalized white guilt while convoluting the reality and btw this is not reparations.

TickTock will let videos like this stay up and claim they don’t offend people who have suffered too much in this country. However, they will remove a video that speaks honestly about enslavement and the ongoing pain of white supremacy in a minute!

The more significant outcome of this trend is when the brown and Black bodies start doing it to each other and the white bodies sit back in the cuts watching the fall out because this is how white supremacy supremacy works. The psychologically of white supremacy impacts all bodies.

White supremacy convinces everyone that it is a natural process for us to turn on each other when in reality it is really by design. Until people truly desire change, change will not occur. And the present will continue to reflect the past. We must be vigilant with our truth to positively impact the future and end the collusion with that which holds our history hostage.

White supremacy convinces everyone that it is a natural process for us to turn on each other when in reality it is really by design. Until people truly desire change, change will not occur. And the present will continue to reflect the past. We must be vigilant with our truth to positively impact the future and end the collusion with that which holds our history hostage.

--

--

JD Fuller MSW, LCSW
JD Fuller MSW, LCSW

Written by JD Fuller MSW, LCSW

J. Denise Fuller is an African American therapist who has over 25 years of experience as a mental health clinician, educator, writer, and consultant.

No responses yet