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I’ve been seeing the videos. People reacting in real time to what happened at Target. One woman in particular was heated, cussing folks out, calling out Black people specifically for standing in line for five hours for a cheap swag bag while boycott talk was still circulating. And I get why people are mad. It looked wild. But here’s the part we keep skipping over. Not everybody in that line was part of any boycott. Some people shop at Target regularly and don’t care. It’s not that serious to them. They weren’t breaking anything because they were never holding the line in the first place. Black people do not move as a monolith. Everybody is not for the cause. Everybody is not thinking about unity, leverage, or collective discipline, and they have the right to move how they want. The issue isn’t really the people who don’t care. The issue is expectations. People keep assuming everyone is on the same page, then getting mad when reality shows otherwise. A boycott only works if the people participating are committed. If you’re already not shopping somewhere, that’s easy. If you don’t care at all, you were never part of it. That Target line wasn’t just about free swag. It exposed a bigger truth. Some people are willing to sit with discomfort. Some people aren’t. Some people want change. Some people just want what’s in front of them. And corporations know this. They don’t study intentions. They study behavior, foot traffic, and patience. So maybe the conversation shouldn’t be about dragging people who never signed up. Maybe it should be about being honest about how fragile boycott expectations are when everyone isn’t moving for the same reasons. #NewsBreak #CommunityReflection #ConsumerBehavior #EconomicPower #HardTruths

THE FRACTURES WITHIN US… AND WHY THEY STILL HURT

Sometimes I sit back and ask myself… how did we drift this far apart? Because our disconnect didn’t start online. It didn’t start with this generation. The crack goes back to slavery, but it didn’t end there. Every era after added a new wound we were never taught to heal. And what makes it even more confusing is this… during the civil rights movement, we were closer. We fought side-by-side because the danger was loud and the mission was clear. Today the threats are quieter, hiding inside our trauma, our stress, our comparison, and our exhaustion. And when the danger isn’t outside, we turn on the people standing closest to us. Black women vs. Black women. Black men vs. Black men. And yes… the growing tension between Black men and Black women. Because the truth is, both sides feel unheard. Black women feel unprotected and unappreciated. Black men feel disrespected and dismissed. Both are tired. Both are carrying wounds they didn’t create. And instead of healing together, we hurt each other first. Not out of hate… but out of disappointment and survival. Add that to the empathy we’ve lost, the community we drifted from, and the trauma we inherited without instruction… and suddenly everybody is defensive, guarded, and overwhelmed. Most of us aren’t mean, we’re tired. Most of us aren’t cold… we’re carrying too much. But the truth underneath all of this is simple: We are not each other’s enemies. We’re hurting in ways we never learned to voice. If we’re finally brave enough to name the fractures… maybe we can finally learn how to repair them. #CultureTalk #CommunityReflection #HealingJourney #ModernLife #GenerationalPatterns #RealConversations #WhyWeAreLikeThis