Dear New Black Initiates:

It doesn’t matter if you don’t see color. The police officers who gun down black and brown women and men and children, the employers who refuse your application on sight because of your name, the developers who push the poor out of affordable housing to build new and lavish condos, the celebs and everyday people who appropriate the culture of black and brown peoples but ridicule those same black and brown peoples in the same breath…yeah those people see color.

And though all blood is the same color your blood will always be shed first.

And the same, the same, THE SAME people who you want to not see race and to forget racism and sexism and classism and ableism because “we’re all human” are the ONLY people that will mourn for you. March for you. Keep your name alive.

Go fuck yallselves.