FORGET MY NAME
Daughter: I'm forgetting my name. I'm done with the shit. New--
Mother: Watch your language.
Daughter: New city, new high school, new life. First thing I'm gonna do when I step my ass in class is--
Mother: Watch your language.
Daughter: The first thing I'm gonna do when i get my schedule is I'm gonna go to EVERY teacher and tell them my new name--whatever name I choose. River or--
Mother: You're named after your great, great grandmother who--
Daughter: I know-- who was a radical feminist for her time, yet she was probably a radical racist bitch who--
Mother: Language! Your grandmother was not a--
Daughter: She lived in the 1800's.
Daughter shakes her head.
Daughter: White people were racist as fuck back--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: You've NEVER once voiced anything about her ass being an--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: You've NEVER once voiced anything about her being an abolitionist and you KNOW that; you've practically told me her everything about HER. You could fuckin
write--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: You could freakin write her biography.
Mother: Your great grandmother wasn't a racist, she-
Daughter: Liar! If she's known for not subjecting herself to misogynist bullshit--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: She stood up against DICKS
who--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: Ugh!
The daughter shakes her head.
Daughter: She's known for taking a stand against men who were assholes--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: She's known for standing up for women during a time when we were expected to get knocked up, cook and clean but---
Mother: YES! That's what she's known for.
Daughter: But she WASN'T known for standing up against racist bullshit that--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: How is it that she's not known for standing up against racists who treated my Niggas disrespectfully--
Mother: Language! You can't say that word.
Daughter: Boquesha, says I'm the Blackest white person she knows; she gave me a Black Card and said I can call her a--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: There’s NO WAY that she can be known for advocating for women and not advocating for BLACK PEOPLE! Unless she was SILENTLY COMPLICIT. The bitch--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: White silence equals violence! She didn’t give a fuck--
Mother: Language!
Daughter: She didn’t give two cents about the plight of Black women or you'd know it and you KNOW you would have TOLD ME!
The CUNT RACIST BITCH; she'd--
Mother: Language, Karen!
Daughter: Don't call me that. She'd probably be a Trump supporter if alive today. I'm changing my name; call me Michelle! That's more becoming.