POV's Skyler

Shortly after he sent that message, my mind immediately went blank. For a while, I thought I saw a spiral, but when my mind returned to normal, all I had was the image he had sent. I did what he suggested and took some time to think. Today was the third day that I had been visiting our conversation page all the time, even when I wasn't at home, our discussion was the priority in my thoughts. During those days, I began to question our efforts.

Looking at posts from other influencers, I began to see a pattern. Despite having much more content made by black people, most of the most liked comments were from white people, according to their profile. It was then that for the first time I went to a website of a white influencer who was known for participating in some of these movements and posting. He had at least twice as many followers as me, and most of his posts had more likes than mine. It was then that an idea came to me. I started looking at other content, wandering towards something that went beyond my initial motives.

I realized that these white content creators were very good, some funny, some tragic and some really inspiring. It made sense that they got more attention, whether it was for racial, gender or sexual manifestations, they always had more followers and likes than me and other black content creators. Now I really realized that we had a lot of help from the white race, the same race that I always criticized, that I ignored.

I realized that he was right about everything, normally I would get angry, I hated losing arguments, but this time it was different, he was so convincing, his arguments were so good, it made sense for me to lose, it seemed natural.

I immediately did what he said and posted the image on my Instagram and Facebook profiles, this time with a clear thank you for all the help they gave us even though they didn't need it.

Of course, although I accept that he was right about the support that the white race gives us, I was also right about the rest, a few good actions don't make up for years of bad actions. There is still a lot of racism on the streets and it's black people who pay for it.

I would talk to him and clarify these points. For some reason I felt the need to continue these racial discussions.

I grabbed my phone and immediately texted him

'Okay, I agree with you, our movement has received a lot of help, we probably wouldn't have been able to get this far without you but that doesn't eliminate the social wrongs caused by racism to innocent people.'