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Dear all you lovely "I'm not racist" folks,

When a Black person says "You can thank me in cash" or "I'll take my apologies in cash," they are not "here asking for money."

What they are doing is pointedly calling out 400+ years of Black labor being free, whether in Slavery, lower wages, carceral prison slavery, emotional labor, or any other. There is a long and exceptionally well documented history of Black labor exploitation, and what that person is doing is speaking directly to that history, and identifying their place within it.

The irony is that, throughout that history, when Black people have pointed to those conditions, they have been called "lazy," "undeserving," "uneducated" and all kinds of other denigrations by people in power. One of those denigrations has always included "greedy." Even during slavery, working for free, Black people were called greedy.

So saying "here asking for money" is actually quite on-brand, you racist, simplistic fucking toadstool of a person.