8 Memes that Show How Black Folks Feel RN

Here we are, halfway through 2020, but we were done with 2020, 3 months ago. So since it’s done, we figured it’s time for a quick meme snapshot of how we’re feeling rn. Ever see a meme, and think, “Thats me af”? Yeah, these are those. 

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Wake up in the afternoon to save breakfast money

Quarantine really had our food budget on 100, but some of us figured it out tho. If you just wake up later, you can skip a meal. Sound reasoning, no?

Trying Like Hell not to cough in the grocery store aisle

These days, if you even so much as let out a light cough or sneeze, and people look at you like you need to be hospitalized. We all know the feeling of trying not to cough or sneeze in public. No Rona here!

“All Lives Matter”

When they say “All lives matter”, but that was never the argument in the first place.

There’s a lot of controversy and debate over the phrase ”All lives matter”. Of course All lives matter, but the way that the phrase came up is in response to “Black Lives Matter”. The intention always felt like it was to invalidate the reality of the Black struggle. Black people are not here to dispute that All lives matter. That’s the most basic human sentiment. However, Black people are saying, we are actively in danger, help us… hear us

Instagram Users After Posting a Black Square

In times like these, people have a difficulty with how to use their social media. People want to protect the “aesthetic” of their page, but they also don’t want to be accused of ignoring what’s happening around them. The black squares were an easy solution for many people, because they didn’t have to do or say anything, but they felt they were “showing solidarity”. Your white/non-Black friends are all like, ‘I posted the square, what else you want?’

“Naw” - Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks will forever be remembered as the lady that refused to get up from her seat on the bus for a white man. She was pivotal in the Montgomery bus boycott. A simple “Naw” was all it took to put so much change into action. Here we are again, in another revolution, refusing oppression. We say, “Naw!, we don’t stand for racism.”

When they insinuate that basic human rights like equality and justice are radical “leftist ideas”

Leftist Ideas, where?

Wait, I’m Sorry, hold up. You said, what? You think that the human right for black people and brown people everywhere to be treated with equality, and to dig their way out of oppression is leftist? Wait, so you think that the LGBTQIA community being recognized with the same respect as every other human is leftist? You think that basic humanity is leftist? Wow.

Fireworks on my Block

You notice a lot these firecrackers that have been going off, especially at night? People have different ideas about why this is happening, and why it’s happening now. Truth is, we just want to sleep in peace again.

Man… I’m Tired

When you’re living through a pandemic, and trying to avoid the Corona Virus, while also trying to fight for justice for Black lives in America, while also trying to sleep through the violent firecrackers that no one understands, while also dealing with news from all around the world of violence and injustice.

There’s just so much going on in 2020, and this image accurately summarizes how everybody has felt at one point or another.