LinkedIn Hates my F%*#ing Guts!

It's defiantly been over three years since the now deleted offensive content was first posted, in the hopes of "sparking conversation". Though I don't have the screenshots to prove it, I remember using the term "commodification of black bodies" and that was it. They wrote me off from there. Never to ever push my content out to the third-layer of my algorithmic reach.

Sarcasm ensues - I'm so sorry to the LinkedIn prophets for offending thee. May I be welcomed back into the fold of your grace and greatness? I am but a young girl from humble beginnings, trying to better one's self, upon thy platform which houses the professionals that might-eth vibe-eth with mine thought provoking content.

Long story short, I will never take that sh*t to LinkedIn ever again. Thats what this blog is for. Three-years wiser, alongside three-years of moderate use and I do see how it isn't the place for such conversations, but in the same breath I think me censoring myself and dimming down what I really want to say is a huge problem.

I often think about the people who are relentlessly showing up to protest for peace these days. I think about the journeys they take to get to these protests, and how they share their actions on social media. And it makes me wonder how many invisible social brownie points they’re losing and the backlash they're facing, just for refusing to appear "neutral" in the face of genocide.

And here I am (a Black woman, during Black History Month) feeling chastised because I wanted to talk about the effects of consumerism, and how materialism within the Black community feeds into the commodification of the Black body. From once being the bodies sold, to now being the bodies that feel the strongest urge to prove their worth through acquiring goods AND OR, being the taste-makers that lead to said item(s) becoming more of a commodity to the masses, whilst receiving the least amount of compensation on the earning food chain. Let me keep it simple: lots of outgoings, not enough returns. Idk girl, I guess I see how this could be offensive, if not shocking to some but, It's just a thought (that might be riddled with truth, but I digress).

I swear, when I started writing this, it had nothing to do with race or protests or genocide, but recently something has been gnawing at me to speak out about injustice every chance I get. Perhaps this is the first and last post you ever read on this here blog, this is exactly how I want to be memorialised in your mind. I just wanted to vent about my damn LinkedIn shadow-ban. But that’s the thing... Everything is about race and protest and genocide. Not because I made it so, but because it is the history of this earth. The game has remained the same, the players just have access to the internet now. Oh, and we flatly condemn the 40-hour working week and being disrespected by upper management. Oh, and we will quit the job too - when our mental health is being abandoned. Ah, and we have figured out that having children super young doesn't mean automatic fulfilment, but again I digress. I’m 27 years into a life shaped by issues that stretch back well over 500 years before I was even a concept. So how could it all being about race start with me, just because I want to bring it up sometime?

"Not everything is about race" is often what I've heard from the creators and perpetrators of systemic racism, as a way to absorb the guilt of the generational atrocities and the generational traumas that still plague the black community and beyond, today. But the more I type the more I get into a can of worm that I'm really not ready to get into today. Especially because the people that will oppose this post the most and take the most offence, are the exact people that I'm trying to defend. Being woke is a thank-less job. And if I could take my woke googles off and hang them up, or better yet put them in a small box and bury them in some field somewhere - you bet your bottom dollar I would. But that's what I get for getting involved in grown folks business.

Today, I just wanted to let it be know that LinkedIn hates my f%*#ing guts!