TikToker Says ‘White People Have Always Prioritized Pets Over Black People’

EXCERPT:

TIKTOKER: "White people have always prioritized pets over black people. Not as a joke, as policy, as culture, as strategy. You ever seen a white woman weep for a rescue dog, but not blink at a black child shot in the back? That's not a quirk. That's colonial memory at work. That's whiteness distributing empathy based on control. They loved the dog because it obeyed. Because it didn't talk back. Because it couldn't remind them of the horror behind the house. But black people? Black people were never allowed to be innocent. They were property. Then threat. And the dog got more compassion than the enslaved.”