About White Tears
White tears is not a blanket reference to all white people. White tears is the phenomenon that occurs when white people are loudly, blatantly uncomfortable with aspects of black empowerment, or when they are made to face the fact of their enduring privilege & instead choose to claim nonexistent racial injustices against them, centering themselves as the “real victims here.”
We choose to laugh
We here at White Tears Beauty choose to laugh at the amazingly blind, self involved audacity of White Tears, rather than be overcome with frustration at attempts to take our pain- and our joy!- and make it about their fragile white feelings and fear of the loss of structural power in a White Supremacist society.
Calming and peaceful
White Tears beauty wants to make your day a bit more calming and peaceful. Now you have a place to go and pamper yourself, & slough off those daily microaggressions you face.
Co-worker breaks the unspoken rule and asks you why is it ok for black people to say the N word? Go home and take a bath, and shine your skin silky smooth and dismiss their false wonderment.
Following are our initial offering of salt scrubs with which to acquaint yourself while taking your mind off the myriad musings on whether or not using the work “Becky” is racist.
Let our fresh, clean-scented mint cucumber scrub soothe your skin & nerves, and relax your senses the way you wish “some people” would relax with invoking this de-toothed, milquetoast, “Buddy King” version of MLK Jr.’s teachings to condemn black activists & protesters. (As if, for instance, the Letter From A Birmingham Jail does not exist.)
Our “Race Card” scrub will uplift your mood with its light notes of lime, while the woody, herbaceous rosemary oil will give your body, the strength- & your mind, the boost- it will need to proceed with grace the next time a person tries to dismiss a racist display by claiming the race card has been played. Because EVERYBODY knows that being accused of playing the race card trumps actual racism.
Stimulate your circulation and reveal fresh skin with our “All Lives Matter” scrub. The earthy sandalwood will ground you, as the familiar, creamy vanilla scent melts away your stress and lets you consider that just as there is no real vanilla essential oil, the “All Lives Matter” argument has no essential validity. Sure it smells (sounds) sweet, but it’s just there to trick you into believing something it doesn’t believe in itself. At least vanilla doesn’t tell you to quit your whining about state- sanctioned murders of black people.