White Tears Brown Scars. How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour

'How is it that we have been so conditioned to privilege the emotional comfort of white people?'White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour, weaponised in order to invoke sympathy and divert blame.Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 'ownership' of their slaves, through centuries of colonialism, when women offered a soft face for brutal tactic