When Black People Online Decide Common Sense Is ,"White Supremacy"

THE DAY I LEARNED THAT LOGIC IS APPARENTLY “ANTI-BLACK.”

Yes… people are actually saying this with their full chest.

Welcome back to The Dreamer’s Pause, where we pause… to process humanity’s loudest nonsense.

So apparently, somewhere on the internet — probably conceived on Twitter, bottle-fed on TikTok, and raised by Facebook aunties — there’s a growing group of black people, proudly declaring:

> “Logic is anti-Black. Logic is imperialistic. To think freely, we must rebuild reason from the ground up.”

Pause.

Let me laugh. 🤭

And I hope you’re laughing too because… be serious. 

Logic? Anti-Black?🤨

Are we still on Earth or did we slide into a parallel universe where brain cells are optional?

Listen — I’m Black, but I’m not THAAAAT Black.🙅🏿

I’m not joining this “logic is racist” movement.

Count me OUT.

Before we even go deeper, let’s define the word being abused:

Imperialistic

(adj.) trying to dominate others culturally, politically, or economically.

Colonization. Empires. Power. All that.

Beautiful word.

Horrible application.

Like using a machete to butter your bread.

Because if logic is “imperialistic,” then every teacher we ever had is an undercover colonizer.

My Grade 1 maths teacher? Secret British governor.

My Life Sciences teacher? A rogue UN agent.

Your accounting teacher? Probably Queen Elizabeth in disguise.

Let’s be very honest:

If logic were truly imperialistic, you wouldn’t even know how to SPELL “imperialistic,” never mind misuse it online.

And yet, people will defend this madness with:

“They’re rejecting Western frameworks.”

“They’re decolonizing knowledge.”

No, sweetheart.

Being loud, chaotic, allergic to structure, and refusing accountability is NOT decolonization.

It’s not liberation.

It’s not a new wave of Afrocentric philosophy.

It’s just… illogical. 😕

And this mindset? This virus?

It’s global.

Not just in the U.S. — Africa also has this sickness.

Some of our people genuinely believe:

Speaking clearly = “acting white”

Thinking properly = “you’re doing too much”

Using logic = “you’re imitating Europeans”

Doing things correctly = “you think you’re better”

Excuse me?

Since when did thinking become a European export?

Did Adam and Eve ask Rome before thinking clearly?

Was Noah building the ark using British metrics?

Did Solomon need permission from Europe to write Proverbs?

Please.🙄

Logic is not white.

Logic is not Western.

Logic is not anti-Black.

Logic is making sense, having common sense.

It’s how we navigate life without embarrassing ourselves on the internet.

Let me be real.

In many Black families, there’s always that one person who thinks clearly — and they become “the odd one,” “the strict one,” “the one who talks too much,” “the one who thinks they’re better.”

I know that experience personally.

Wear your seatbelt? “You’re talking too much.”

Plan properly? “You want to control everything.”

Speak good English? “You’re acting white.”

Meanwhile, these same people will cry when their child fails an interview.

But online, people representing the community are out here saying “logic is anti-Black,” making us look unserious.

And here’s the funniest part:

People want to “rebuild reason from the ground up.”

But how do you rebuild something you’ve never used?

How do you redesign logic when your arguments don’t even have a foundation?

You cannot reject structure and call it freedom.

You cannot baptize foolishness and call it culture.

You cannot declare war on common sense and expect applause.

And the irony?

People need logic to even post these takes online — the same logic they’re condemning.

You used logic to form a sentence, type it, upload it, and press “post.”

Congratulations. You disproved your own argument. 🤦🏿

Moral of the Story

If you want to be illogical, be illogical.

If you want to be chaotic, the world is big.

If you want to reject common sense like it’s expired yoghurt, go ahead.

But:

Don’t drag the rest of us into it.

Don’t turn confusion into culture.

Don’t project your mental fog onto Black identity.

Logic protects us.

Logic elevates us.

Logic saves us.

Logic dignifies us.

Logic has never been anti-Black.

Stupidity is not heritage.

Confusion is not culture.

And loudness is not enlightenment.

Please — for the ancestors, for the culture, for our dignity —

Let’s stop embarrassing ourselves.

And with that…

The Dreamer pauses. 😮‍💨

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