🌍 Where Do We Even Go From Here?

When Your Existence Is Still up for Debate

"I’m tired of being sick and tired—and I haven’t even faced half of what my ancestors did.”

🎥 The Trigger

A video broke me.

A Black woman left America hoping to escape racism. She chose Russia. She was violently attacked.
And the comment section? Brutal.
They mocked her for believing that somewhere could be racism-free.
They sneered at her “naivety,” laughed at her pain.
As if the audacity to hope for basic dignity is a punchline.

👉 Watch the video (trigger warning)

And it made me ask:
Where exactly are we supposed to go?

🧳 We Didn’t Choose This Room — We Survived Our Way into It

Let’s clear something up.
We didn’t just “show up” in your countries.
We were dragged, enslaved, scattered, and forced into survival.
We weren’t guests — we were property.

Then we were told:

  • Assimilate.

  • Be grateful.

  • Prove you're worthy.

So we did.
We built homes, families, economies.
We became teachers, surgeons, cleaners, inventors, entrepreneurs.

This isn’t just your country anymore.
It’s ours too.
And yet, we’re still seen as outsiders.

🧱 They Let Us Work — But Never Meant for Us to Prosper

People love saying, “Well, you’re doing better than back then.”
But the bar was the basement.
And even now, the elevator isn’t going to every floor.

Let’s talk numbers:

💷 UK Wealth Disparities:

  • Average white British household: £314,000

  • Average Black African household: £34,000

🇺🇸 U.S. Wealth Disparities:

  • Median white household: $250,400

  • Median Black household: $27,100

That’s not the past — that’s now.

So no — we're not just harping on about "a rubbish past."
We're pointing at an uninterrupted structure still operating under new names.

🤝 If You’re Going to Talk Heritage, Tell the Whole Story

People defending the Confederate flag as “heritage” should check their history.
Because guess what? Not all your ancestors supported it.

Many white people fought against slavery:

  • Union soldiers who died to defeat the Confederacy

  • White abolitionists who funded, sheltered, and freed enslaved people

  • German resistors who risked their lives to defy Nazi ideology

You can’t selectively inherit pride.
If your ancestors fought for justice, why are you flying a flag they’d be ashamed of?

Stop dishonoring your own lineage in defense of bigotry.
Don’t weaponize allyship as an excuse to ignore injustice today.

😠 “It’s Not That Bad” Is Still a Confession

Every time someone says, “Well, it’s not as bad as America,”
They’re not disproving racism — they’re admitting they know it exists.

So how exactly should I, as a Black woman, navigate your “not-as-bad” racism?

Ignore it? Internalize it? Make peace with being side-eyed in interviews and muttered at in shops?

I’ve been told to go back to my own country.
I’ve been called the N-word.
I’ve heard “too many foreigners” as I walk by — like I’m background noise in a country I helped build.

🛰️ What About the Future? Will There Be Room for Us There?

Now we’re learning about space travel, lunar settlements, Mars missions.

And I wonder:
Will the escape pods already be filled when we arrive?
Will the same structures of exclusion follow us to the stars?

Or can we make it different this time?

A future that isn’t built on survival, but on equity.
On truth.
On space for everyone, not just the privileged few.

🧠 Understanding Racism Is Not the Same as Managing It

Sure, I know the psychology.
I’ve read the studies.
I understand how bias forms, how ideology spreads.
But that doesn’t help me manage the environment.

Understanding the fire doesn’t stop the burn.

🧭 So... What Now?

What do you want from us?

We’ve built. We’ve contributed. We’ve assimilated. We’ve resisted.
And still — you doubt us.
Still, you laugh at us for daring to hope for better.

Maybe the problem isn’t that we talk about racism too much.
Maybe the problem is that you refuse to listen.

And when you joke that “we all know someone with those views” —
I ask:
And what are you doing about it?

Because silence is comfort for you.
But it's violence for us.

✊ Final Thought

“We didn’t start this war. But we’re still fighting it.
We’re still walking through your side-eyes, your slurs, your subtle exclusions,
and then being told we’re imagining it.”

I don’t want to explain this again.
But I will — because someone needs to.

We carry our ancestors’ fire.
We’re not asking for your pity.
We’re demanding our space.
On Earth, in boardrooms, in space pods—and in truth.

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