Hello Everyone!

Momentum is stalling - I do not have the money to keep boosting visibility as I am currently unemployed and I do not have the heart to ask any of you to contribute money. That being said, the most I feel comfortable asking is that you continue to share the petition wherever possible and please, if you can, post some words of support explaining why you support me. 5,000 -plus people have viewed this petition and chose to look the other way. That makes all of you who signed truly admirable in my book. I’m just hoping we can make it to 500 before Black History Month is over!

In case you’re wondering what the photo is about, it’s a screenshot of message I sent to a white female member of my Buy Nothing group. She was widowed last year and I learned she was married to a Black man. She has two sons by him. Therefore I assumed she would be more inclined to be amenable to signing, right?

WRONG.

She laugh reacted to this message ( below ) and blocked me ( as you can see in the screenshot). 

That’s an example of insidious racism. Just because you’re married to a Black person, it doesn’t mean you’re not racist. I was shocked, but not surprised.

Why?

In December 2022, she tried to gift us a crib covered in white fuzzy mold. She claimed she just thought it was dust, but when moving it from the basement to the side of the house, how could you not notice the moldy smell? My husband did.

Maya Angelou said "When people show you who they are the first time, believe them”.

She showed us her lack of conscience. How could you give us something covered in mold?My husband left the crib instead of providing her with a free disposal service. I’m sure she wasn’t happy that we wouldn’t take it to the dump for her!

Anyway, here was the message that she Laugh reacted to then blocked:

"Happy New Year! I hope life has been treating you well in 2024 so far! I have a little favor to ask. I’ve been down in the dumps since Dec 2022 over being unjustly kicked out of a private FB group I considered a safe space for three years. My crime? Anonymously posting song lyrics inspired by John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas” ( War is Over) which lamented the plight of babies and children in Gaza. I didn’t break any rules; I think the creator used my anonymous post as an excuse to kick me out because she’s been secretly resenting me for years.

How do I know she resented me?
Well, in April 2022, an abscess in my belly ruptured six weeks postpartum - it was so scary I thought it was my last night on Earth and I was admitted to the hospital. Fortunately the abscess was walled off so it didn’t spread throughout my body, causing sepsis. I posted about my experience while lying in my hospital bed. My husband was home with two sick kids and a newborn and couldn’t be by my side. No one could. I was alone, so I turned to that Facebook group for support. One member felt so sorry for me that she asked the creator admin to start a meal train for me.

The creator’s reply? “Feel free to start one ( yourself)”.

Wow. That showed how little she thought of me.

I shrugged it off. Maya Angelou said “When people show you who they are the first time, believe them”.

I wanted to believe that this admin slash group creator was a good person and was simply having a bad day.

I didn’t realize she resented me for being a very intelligent, outspoken, resilient Black woman who was unemployed ( through no fault of her own).

I guess I got too big for my britches.

But this wasn’t an isolated incident.

Please read the rest, and if you feel my cause is worthy, please sign and share. Thanks!”

My question to her is : How could you read the above message and feel so much scorn you had to Laugh react at it? And you have two Black sons, how in the world do you think they will ever be immune to anti-Black racism?

That is how firmly entrenched and internalized white supremacy is. She thinks that now that her Black husband is gone, her whiteness will protect her Black sons. She can afford to laugh at me and what I went through.  Losing a husband didn’t make her more empathetic towards other people. Certainly not me, as you can see.

I would never do something like this to other people. Because Karma.

Thank you for reading!