Dear Mike Davis:
First off, to hell with you and the clique you claim…
Black people aren’t “minorities” and whiteness isn’t the human default. On a global scale, white people are vastly outnumbered by the non-white world. “Minority” is a political label, not a statement about who makes up humanity.
And since you’re handing out one-way tickets to Black Americans because you don’t like what we have to say, allow me to make a counteroffer.
We’re staying.
Black people have been on this soil for centuries. Our ancestors cleared it, cultivated it, built its cities, constructed its institutions, fought in its wars, enriched its culture and helped turn America into America while being denied the very freedom and citizenship you now arrogantly suggest we surrender.
So here’s the Mike Davis European Repatriation Package:
One complimentary one-way ticket across the Atlantic
Six months to locate whichever branch of Europe your ancestors departed from
A complimentary genealogy kit so you can determine whether Poland, Ireland, Germany, Italy, England or somewhere else should prepare for your arrival
Assistance completing the paperwork to renounce the American citizenship you think is so disposable
Directions to the nearest ancestral European cave
And since you’re so preoccupied with a Black woman’s hair, we’ll throw in a complimentary lice repellent comb so you can untangle your hair and your twisted argument.
Consider everything in this counteroffer already prepaid by the centuries of uncompensated forced labor extracted from our Black ancestors, the very debt at the heart of the reparations claim America still has not settled.
Telling Black Americans to surrender their citizenship, leave the country and “never come back,” followed by a crack about a Black woman’s “nappy” hair is the exact kind of racist and sexist vitriol that comes from a pathetic and disgusting maga piece of human refuse.
Raven Schwam-Curtis offered a cogent argument on reparations. You answered with misogynoir, exile fantasies, and puerile insults about Black hair.
Your offer is declined, Mike. We’re staying. You’ll simply have to learn how to live in a country where Black people neither require your permission to be American nor your approval to speak.