White Fatigue Is Real—And I’m Tired of It
With all the Elon and Trump drama, we already knew what that was as I’ve been writing about this clan for a minute. Though this week, let’s talk about a different kind of exhaustion. Not theirs—ours.
“Black fatigue” is real. It’s the emotional, mental, and generational toll of navigating a world built on racism. It was coined by Black folks, for Black folks, to name the weight of surviving racism—not reacting to it. But now, here come non-Black folks flipping the script like it was theirs to begin with.
Y’all invented racism, upheld it, benefited from it, yet they still have the nerve to deflect their behaviors when folks call it out. That’s not fatigue, that’s white privilege —and instead of dealing with it, they flip the narrative.
Should you wonder where all this is coming from, a few weeks ago a TikToker went viral after using the term “Black fatigue” to justify a white woman calling a Black child the n-word.
Her claim? “We” are tired of “ghetto behavior.” She called it “hoodrattery,” “animalistic,” and acted like she was speaking for all of society. And it was exactly what white supremacy does—steal, distort, and deflect.
What’s worse is some in our own community co-signed the nonsense. That’s the crabs-in-a-bucket effect—residue of slavery, where we were trained to fight each other instead of the system. But let’s be clear: whether you were a field or house slave, you were still a slave. And fueling this narrative as a black person is counterintuitive as you only negate your own existence as a human being.
If You’re Tired of the Conversation, Stop Being the Cause
So let’s flip it back: You’re tired of Black people? I’m tired of non-black people inventing racism, enforcing it, and then playing victim when there’s a response. That’s not fatigue. That’s white privilege. And instead of fixing the issue, you hijack our language and cry reverse discrimination like it’s a valid argument.
If you’re sick of hearing about racism, here’s a radical idea: stop being racist. Be fair and kind to everyone. It’s not that hard.
