my mom’s work held a seminar about lgbt issues and there was a part where they talked about the high rates of suicide, drug use, and abuse that bi people face and my mom told me that everyone there was so shocked that the rates were higher than gay men and lesbians. including the gay man who was sitting next to my mom who said he had no idea and now he felt guilty for how he talked to and thought about bi people in the past. everyone there (including my mother, by her own admission) thought that things would be easier for bisexuals because we can “fit in with either group.” that really shows you how much people ignore the specific issues that bisexuals have to go through and how the fact that people think we have “straight-passing privilege” just makes people turn their backs on us.
According to the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC), approximately 40 percent of bisexual people have considered or attempted suicide, compared to just over a quarter of gay men and lesbians.
HRC’s “Health Disparities Among Bisexual People” found that “when compared to heterosexual adults, bisexual adults reported double the rate of depression and higher rates of binge drinking.”
Those numbers are even higher for the bisexual people who are also transgender, people of color and/or people with disabilities.
don’t buy from white dealers and don’t sell to white people.
don’t underage drink with white people.
don’t do anything that could be viewed as illegal by cops with white people and this isn’t me trying to be anti-white this is me telling you to protect yourself from anti-black cops. they won’t hesitate to pin the entire crime on you even if your white friend did 90% of the crime.
most (if not all) white people don’t understand the same crimes they commit (getting into a bar with a fake ID, stealing cigars, playing with toy guns in walmart) we are given a lengthy imprisonment or executed on the spot for.
so don’t put yourself in a situation that could get you killed and a white person a slap on the wrist.
And no one notices the casual racism in this “enlightened” post. “
and don’t sell to white people.
“ inferring that black kids definitely are going to deal drugs. (Slow clap). That’s brilliant, Tumblr. Way to perpetuate negative stereotypes as a normal and casual part of black childhood, while warning them of the evil of white people. In the process of trying to act enlightened and pro-black you perpetuated an antiquated negative stereotype as normal and even expected of black childhood and look how many people shared this garbage.
the post is
talking about teenagers, not kids (kids aren’t going to be underage
drinking either) and some teenagers deal drugs. Some teenagers drink.
Some teenagers do dumb shit. Kids deserve not to die or be seriously hurt for doing dumb shit.
The people above you aren’t “trying to act enlightened and pro-black.” They were having an intracommunity conversation about how police will use violent force on Black teenagers (as has been demonstrated again and again and again) and are trying to help young kids not die. They’re not qualifying their statements to your liking because you are not their intended audience.
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