Even though Donald Trump is running around saying all kinds of things which could be considered ‘Hate Speech,’ Instagram seems to feel comfortable to police Black women when they say or post something especially for themselves.
According to HuffPost, after writer Rachel Cargle created a space on her IG a safe space for Black and Brown women to express their thoughts about the tragic killing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson, her post removed because IG thought it was ‘Hate Speech’ according to their community guidelines.
People of Color flipped.
What made IG react? This copy moved someone to report Cargle.
“The space under the post (commented, replies) is exclusively for women of color,” Cargle wrote. “Exclusively. No white women, no men.”
Cargle told HuffPost via an email, “Instagram has a heavy track record of taking down posts by people of color in order to maintain the comfort and satisfaction of their white community,” and then added. “When black people report posts we get nowhere near the type of quick and efficient responses, in fact, we are often turned away saying that our concerns are not valid when we bring racist, problematic posts to their attention.”
The post was reinstated on Thursday, July 26 after the issue was reviewed.
After the back peddling Cargle’s post is still growing in popularity. Without being an IG model and showing off her goods, this safe space for Black and Brown women allows for vulnerability and voice, during a time when America definitely seeks silent or control the Black women’s voices.
“It happens every day where black women use our voice to speak on injustice, to express our experiences, to voice our concerns, or even just to state how we feel,” she said in the email. “Time and time again, white women decide that they don’t like hear about or coming to terms with the ways they are harming black women and instead of step up on solidarity they silence us, resting in their supremacy.”