If you think it's hard being on this site because people are always looking for ways to 'cancel' you for problematic statements about minorities, imagine being the minority in question and having to be reminded just how many popular people are bigoted against you all the time

Like, seriously, every day I there's something on my feed that reminds me of how invested society is in my disenfranchisement, disrespect, even death.

It's exhausting. All I want to do is be a dorky fey rabbit online but I can never forget I'm Black.

If it isn't some popular furry doubling down on being racist, it's scientific studies showing how racism makes life harder in every aspect, or politics advancing racist practices with or without the 'racist' bits obscured for plausible deniability

And people wonder why black furries are so mad and loud all the time. It's because so many big names in this fandom still have outsized support despite pointing a finger at people like me and going "You're terrible and I hate you"

Imagine moving through a world where everyone looks at you like you're a menace, you work a job where you get paid less than white counterparts and have to swallow indignities large and small, you pay taxes to a government upholding your own oppression...

...you have to deal with the effects of centuries of racism limiting where you can live, the quality of medical care, what kind of food is available, the wealth you can access...coming home to a fandom that prides itself on diversity and acceptance...