Facebook Publication Date: 8/28/2019 21:08
The Circle Game of Reacts
I’m going to be posting like a dervish in the next few days, but for now, today, I really need to remind everyone about our shared ethos of no reacts.
To, yet again, reiterate what I have said before, just because I am not saying no reacts on every post, or lovingly confronting all of those who insist upon doing it, does not mean they’re okay.
If you need a refresher in the rationale behind our position on no reacts, they are in the pinned posts, which you should have read.
I am bringing you this service basically for free. which is another conversation we need to have, and we will, but I do not have the spoons for it tonight.
I cannot spend the time that I spend I’m saying no reacts over and over, at the expense of giving you content and commentary.
What’s most distressing is that people who have been here for a while are doing it a lot too.
Have you considered what kind of example you’re giving to your fellow Walkers when you do this?
Particularly for those who, weeks or months in, have absolutely no excuse.
Over the last week there have been literally hundreds of them.
Yes, I counted, and my spirit is low because of it.
No one is exempt from this guideline.
I’ve said that before too.
It doesn’t matter if you know me in real life, it doesn’t matter your race or ethnicity, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been here for nine minutes or nine weeks or 19 months, and you feel you’re charter member.
It degrades community, it undermines depth of posting, and most importantly *it enforces and preserves white supremacy in a space run by a black woman*.
That is true for every person who chooses to do it, regardless of color or ethnicity.
There are not many ways I can lead all of you far-flung people.
One of the things you need to learn is to respect the words of a black woman.
And if you cannot do it in this regard, I guarantee you you’re not doing it in other areas of your life.
If this is something you cannot or will not do, this may not be the space for you.
As we move to the website, you will not have a chance to do reacts, but there will probably be other ways you can sabotage and undermine the ethos and Community Spirit of this space.
This is good practice for you not to do that.
Most of the excuses that I see are that you see something from lace on race in their feed and you heart or like mindlessly. That’s problematic right there.
And one way to circumvent that is not to depend on the feed, but to come here mindfully and with intention and ready to work.
Again, if that is not something you can do or are willing to do oh, perhaps the space is not for you.
It only gets deeper from here.
I am giving you my absolute best.
I am asking you for this one thing.
And I am telling you right up front, I do not want to hear any reasonings, or helpful suggestions, or tutorials on how Facebook work. I know that already. I know that likes and hearts generate more people coming to the page.
But I’m going to say this flat out tonight.
I don’t need more people. frankly, the number that we have is already almost too large to do the work we do in the way we do it.
I need the people who are here to start doing the work, to start engaging with intention, to internalize the need for and live out a commitment to tangible commitment to supporting the space. Which 99% of you, nineteen months in, still refuse to do.
To support the work I do on your behalf.
I can tell you this with absolute truth. Almost none of the people who insist on likes our hearts support this space.
Most of them don’t comment, most of them don’t contribute to the health and sustainability of this community.
I have also said this before. The insistence on likes and hearts carries an inverse relationship to the commitment and Praxis of the people who do it.
for those of you who want the space to continue, the minimum standards and guidelines that we have laid down need to be respected.
There aren’t very many of them.
We are coming into election season, we need to discipline ourselves.
And I will also say this I am okay with not four thousand, or even 400; the people I want walking with me as I do this work to the very best of my ability are those that are willing to walk in resilient and reliable ways.
If that’s 400 that’s great. If it’s 40 that’s okay too. If it’s only four of you by the time we finish this, that has to be okay.
It hurts me personally to be disrespected in the space that I created.
That needs to stop.
And again, if this is something you cannot or will not do, there are literally thousands of spaces that will gladly accept your reacts.
This is not one of them.
Hear me.
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