I was recently asked, “What did Black people even get from the Black Lives Matter movement?”
Let me tell you what we got—and why it’s making them panic.
We got an awakening.
Not just in the Black community.
Not just in the streets.
But in white America—and across the globe.
For the first time in a long time, we watched millions of people—especially white people—realize that racism isn’t just a problem Black people have to solve. That it’s not just about how we navigate white supremacy... but how white people uphold it—and how they can dismantle it, too.
That shift? That right there? It was dangerous to the status quo.
Before George Floyd’s murder, before the global uprisings, most people—especially those who weren’t Black—treated racism like a personal issue. Like something we just had to cope with. Fight on our own. Endure. Educate them about.
They thought we had to figure out how to be treated fairly.
But after BLM, after the marches, the stories, the videos, the soul-wrenching conversations—it became clear:
Everyone has a role.
Everyone. Especially those with privilege. Especially those who benefit from the system—even if they didn’t build it.
And that’s what they’re trying to undo right now.
They’re not just rolling back policy.
They’re trying to reverse the awakening.
Because that awakening made people empathize.
It made them organize.
It made them look at their own families, workplaces, schools, churches—and say, “What am I doing to help dismantle white supremacy?”
That kind of mass consciousness? That level of empathy?
That’s dangerous to people who rely on racism to maintain power.
So what we’re experiencing right now - the censorship, the bans, the rewriting of history books, the criminalizing of protest, the silencing of Black voices, the anti-DEI movements—all of it is a blowback.
A desperate attempt to stuff the truth back into the bottle.
But here’s the thing:
Once people saw the truth—once they felt it—you can’t unsee it.
So even if some short-term policies were reversed,
Even if they’re trying to suppress what we gained,
The shift in global consciousness is permanent.
Because now they know.
Now they know this isn’t a “Black problem.”
It’s a human problem.
And they know they have a role in fixing it.
That’s what the Black Lives Matter movement gave us:
A worldwide awakening of how white supremacy works, who benefits, and what it will take to undo it.
And that’s why they’re so scared.
And that’s powerful.
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