Reporting Racism Isn’t Snitching—It’s Strategy: Why Documenting Racism Matters, Builds Paper Trails, and Protects Communities

For centuries, Black Americans have been the most surveilled, criminalized, and over-documented population in the United States. From slave patrols and “Black codes” to COINTELPRO and predictive policing, this country has built entire systems around tracking us—our movements, our behavior, our protests, our very existence. And yet, when we are harmed—when we are called slurs, denied services, stalked, threatened, harassed, or even assaulted—there is no paper trail.

We are urging our people: Start documenting. Start reporting. Start creating the kind of records that lead to exposure, prosecution, and change.

Because while they’ve been documenting us to control us, it’s time we document them to hold them accountable.

No Report = No Pattern = No Justice

When a white supremacist targets a Black child in public—screaming slurs, chasing them, or threatening violence—and no one files a report, what happens? Nothing. When a racist teacher humiliates a Black student in front of the class and the parent doesn’t go to the school board, what changes? Nothing. When cops laugh off abuse in front of our faces and no complaint is filed, guess what? It never happened—not officially.

One report may get ignored. But three, five, ten reports? That’s called a pattern, and patterns change everything. Patterns get flagged. Patterns get attention. Patterns lead to legal action—whether criminal charges, civil lawsuits, or forced institutional reform.

Racists rely on our silence. They bank on our exhaustion. They weaponize the fact that we don’t use the system the way they do. They count on us not filing reports so they can continue their abuse without ever being labeled “repeat offenders.”

Let’s flip the script.

The Psyop of “No Snitching” Is Killing Our Communities

Black communities have been psychologically manipulated into thinking that reporting abuse—even racist, violent, or illegal abuse—is somehow a betrayal. We’ve been fed the lie that filing a complaint is “snitching,” even when it’s about people who are harming us.

That isn’t street code. That’s programming. And it’s keeping our people in danger.

There’s a difference between protecting your community and protecting predators. Right now, we are allowing white supremacists—many of them empowered by titles like “teacher,” “officer,” “nurse,” or “neighbor”—to abuse, intimidate, and harass us without consequence.

Enough. If we don’t report them, the system protects them by default.

Use the Same Systems That Are Used Against Us

Let’s be clear: The same police departments, courtrooms, and government agencies that have been weaponized against us can be used to expose those who are harming us. It doesn’t make you weak. It makes you strategic.

We must start using:

• The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
  File a federal complaint: https://civilrights.justice.gov/report
  Especially for racial violence, threats, or hate speech against protected classes.
• Child Protective Services (CPS)
  If a racist incident involves or targets a child, especially if the perpetrator is a parent, guardian, or educator, file a report. Mental and verbal abuse count.
• Local Police Departments
  Document every hate incident. Even if they do nothing now, those reports will build over time. That paper trail matters in the long run.
• Your School Board, HR Department, and Local Government
  File complaints. Demand responses. Create pressure.

Every form. Every email. Every report builds a trail—and trails turn into traps for repeat abusers.

“Them: What are the benefits of filing a complaint or report?”
Me: It creates a paper trail that can be used to identify a pattern for civil or legal action.”
— Exclusive quote from @mikebaggz, founder of BLKsignal News

BLKsignal News isn’t just here to report the stories—we’re here to shape the outcome. We’re not afraid to name names. We file letters. We talk to CPS. We contact the police. We email the DOJ. We create receipts that can’t be ignored.

And we encourage you to do the same.

We Need to Start Documenting Our Domestic Terrorists

If a white supremacist walked into your neighborhood today and threw a rock through a Black family’s window while yelling slurs—and no one filmed it, no one called the cops, no one filed a report—did it even happen? According to the system: No.

This is why racist abuse rarely makes it into public records. There’s no documentation. Which means there’s no accountability.

We’ve seen the system weaponized against us. It’s time to turn it around and weaponize the truth.

What You Can Do Right Now:

• Start reporting every racist incident you witness or experience.
• Create your own record: Keep screenshots, videos, names, times, and details.
• Submit reports to the proper agencies—even if they try to ignore it.
• Educate others: Encourage friends and family to document, too.
• Support platforms like BLKsignal that are doing this work daily.

Final Word: If They Can Build Cases Against Us, We Can Build Cases Against Them

They have the advantage of centuries of surveillance, archives, and state power. But we have the truth. We have receipts. We have digital tools. We have eyes everywhere.

If they can build entire dossiers to criminalize us, we can damn sure build the same to bring them down.

Let’s stop asking to be protected. Let’s start protecting each other by exposing every racist threat to our safety.
Because without a record, there’s no recognition.
And without recognition, there’s no justice.

BLKsignal News stands with the people—documenting injustice, exposing white supremacy, and fighting for accountability.