When will white people stop dabbing?

When will white people understand that awkwardly wiggling their body around does NOT equal alliance with black people?

When will white people recognize that their twerk has the tendency to cause me major discomfort when I am forced to watch it during school dances and trashy parties?

Will white people ever realize that we have all grown tired of the debilitating performances they seem to constantly be putting on?

Your forceful and stiff whip reminds me more of a plantation than a dance club.

Modern day colonization inhabiting our spaces and stealing from our culture just to experience it as your own.

Our "dance crazes" are all the rave until a black child is shot down on the street and left their to die.

Our "boxer braids" are so cute and edgy until you realize that it is not the black woman you want to see it on.

College parties spent with new renditions of the stanky legg while everyone throws their head back and chortles, but it feels less like pure fun and more like harsh ridicule.

The dab is so much more fun when white people in white spaces with white privilege tag it at the end of the joke and everyone can sit and laugh about how stupid of a dance it is the black people created.

When will white people stop saying

“Well it’s not a big deal, it’s just a ___”

"Dance"

"Hairstyle"

"Word"

"Slavery happened so long ago what happened to forgiveness?"

What happened to my history?

But what happened to my story?

What happened to my culture?

When will white people learn to sit back and admire rather than to take and destroy. To take something not made for them and claim it as their own.

As a joke.

As a trend.

When will white people stop showing up five hours late to the party only to give the illusion that they've been there the whole time?

And maybe they have.

Maybe they have been watching.

And waiting.

For the perfect moment to make their move like a thief in the night.

Like a thief in the night.

When will white people stand up for me?

When will white people stop exchanging protesting for safety pins?

When will white people stop acting like the smallest act of inconvenience on their part will pay back slavery reparations.

When will white people stop making airhorn noises for no real reason and ignoring the cries for help in the streets that surround them?

When will the obsession over black culture end?

When will the dehumanization of a whole race cease?

When will white people realize that sometimes, they just won’t have a seat at the table?