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I got this response last week on WhatsApp family and close friends group chat ‘why are you so hostile??!?!’ when I posted pro BLM stuff, which is code for;
‘we rescued you from a life in a children’s home in 1975, so shut the fuck up’
‘We don’t recognise your trauma‘
‘We don’t respect your culture, heritage or point of view’
‘we will remain a white working class family’
‘We resent that you made something of your life when you left the care system’
‘We will remain ignorant and intolerant‘
‘We resent being called entitled or privileged’
Of course I owe my foster family a lot back in 1975, but I believe that prejudice and racial indifference is difficult to shake off after decades of neglect in poor white minority neighbourhoods seething with resentment.
I’m not making excuses for them, but it’s a world away from where I want to be.