The Appropriation of “Rest in Power”

Why Every Thing Isn’t for Every Body

Photo by cottonbro studio: https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photo-of-person-s-palm-4631077/

I came across a Twitter thread in which a woman made it abundantly clear to another that she saw nothing wrong with appropriating a phrase that originated in Black circles: rest in power. At first I ignored the matter, but the more I thought about how the woman doubled down on her position and assumed privilege, the more it got under my…