
Blocked!
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who resembles a snowflake: white, cold, tiny, and ephemeral. Unique, special.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who feels terrified by what he speculates is that I got to say.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who doesn’t care about what I got to say.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who is too fragile, too afraid, too weak to listen to what I got to say.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who will forever refuse to acknowledge that #MexicanLivesMatter.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who would very likely choose to die before even knowing what it is that I got to say.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who comes from a long lineage of white men who have been shutting down writers of color, let’s just say Mexican writers, for ages.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who is happy with the Institution and with how the Institution works, and he caters to the Institution, because, you see, it’s a matter of life and death as you all know.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who wants the conversation to end before it even begins.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who defines himself as liberal, and open minded, and caring about social justice, and about being an ally, and all that, just as long as the pain of the world, embodied in the tweets by an insignificant Mexican writer, doesn’t get through his timeline into his comfort zone, gawd forbid.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who loves me, just the other way around.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who likes his doors and windows shut just like his own mind, since there is so much more freedom for white folk behind shut doors, in the darkness.
- A white man blocking me on Twitter is a white man who has serious and very valid concerns about the future of literature.