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There’s No Victim Mentality While Fighting White Racism
When those meddling first responders to white racism and anti-Blackness — whom I did not call — chastise victims, I quickly assess their spirit and their credentials to judge and demonize someone else as a sniveling victim.
I understand and accept that in the court of public opinion, and in the school of psychology, a victim mentality is one to avoid.
The victim mentality believes it is powerless; it has no responsibility or course of action, and it sees itself as a victim without cause or proof.
That is not what Black people do when they finger white racism and anti-Blackness as a system of oppression.
White America has wronged Black people. There is no debate.
The initial and ongoing harms and hindrances justify the victimized. The victim is not wrong for being victimized. The victim is not wrong for pointing to the harms and the harmful. The victim is wrong if they charge the wrong party.
Often when people say a Black person has a victim mentality about white racism and anti-Blackness, their end goal is not to end racism.
