The regurgitation of what Black leaders say filtered, softened, repackaged, and repeated back to us in “whitespeak” is pissing me off.

Let me be very clear, I am talking to anyone who has ever paraphrased something a Black person (or any person of color) has said to make it more palatable. Or to make it clearer to a larger audience. That paraphrasing into “whitespeak” is a form of erasure.  

When something keeps breaking, you don’t yell at the worker. You examine the system that produced the failure. You find the waste, the gap, the bottleneck, the harm, and you fix that. If it can’t be fixed, then you create something new.