This has been one hell of a week for racial stupidity: Food is racist, chess is racist, the truth is racist, and now we get “sleep is racist.” Not only is sleep racist but black activists are demanding sleep reparations. What are those? Who cares? This is along the lines of claiming water is racist, which I’m sure some leftist is cooking up for tomorrow’s racial outrage.
Teen Vogue is no longer a magazine for vain girls trying to get date-raped, it’s a full-blown leftist resistance outlet. That’s why instead of articles like “Top Ten Handjob Techniques” they are publishing crap like this:
Black Power Naps Is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep
Fannie Sosa and Navild Acosta were tired, but it wasn’t just any old fatigue. Yes, they experienced a lack of sleep, but they were specifically experiencing a generational fatigue familiar to Black people and people of color. From this sleeplessness, the two created Black Power Naps.
“It came from understanding that the American dream is a sleepless one. We inherited this exhaustion,” said Sosa.
Black Power Naps is an artistic initiative with components including physical installations, zines, an opera, and more. But it’s also a recognition of the hundreds of years of sleep deprivation that Black people and people of color have experienced as a result of systemic racism, a way to pushback against the false stereotype that Black people are lazy, and an investigation of the inequitable distribution of rest. That lack of sleep has serious consequences.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture literally calls black people lazy so it can’t be a false stereotype. And here’s one of these Black Powernap fools accidentally calling black people weak-minded:
Studies have shown that, for a host of reasons, Black people get less sleep, and less deep sleep, than white people. Sleep loss can cause higher levels of cortisol, as Acosta noted, and can lead to many health problems including early death. But there’s something deeper going on — Acosta explained that sleep deprivation was used as a means of control over enslaved people, meaning Black people haven’t been getting the sleep they need for generations.
“We’re dealing with an inheritance of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation was a…deliberate tactic of slave owners to basically make the mind feeble. That same tactic has only evolved,” said Acosta.
If sleep deprivation makes people’s minds feeble and black people don’t get enough sleep like this kook claims, that means he’s saying that black people have weak minds. One of the biggest problems with being full of shit is that it’s really hard to keep all of your bullshit together.
Speaking of which, these two sleep-deprived feeble-minded morons are demanding compensation for this thing that isn’t real or backed by any evidence whatsoever:
To help resolve this chronic lack of sleep, Acosta and Sosa are calling for rest as reparations. Yes, they’re looking for an ease to the many burdens that might prevent Black people and people of color from sleeping like systemic racism, socioeconomic struggle, and more. But they’re also looking for the opportunity to rest and have leisure time — time that will allow people to dream and heal.
“Slavery is a regime of stealing and extraction: Stolen wages, stolen life, stolen land, but stolen time was one of the main things. We need time. We need time off, we need time out. Our ancestors never got to take a month off for holidays, they never got to take a sabbatical, they never got to take a nap. When you pile all of those together, you see the reparations that need to happen are monetary, but they’re also time and space,” said Sosa.
And while Sosa didn’t explain how sleep reparations would work, she did say one of the funnest things I’ve ever read:
“We are having to go out in the streets during a pandemic, expending our energy in really huge amounts in order to ask for reparations and rest and energy. It is a … double edged sword to navigate as an activist or organizer. You are putting your body on the line to reclaim it. That creates a lot of burnout. We have people who are 20, 21, they are burnt out. They need time off. They need not only to sleep, but to know their people are going to be ok, to know they’re going to be ok, to know they can take a break,” Sosa said.
Instead of rioting, take a nap. Rather than shooting black children to death, catch some Z’s. In lieu of freaking out on everything as racism, sleep in. It’s so simple even a feeble-minded sleep deprived slacktivist can understand it.
