Posted on 08/20/2014 11:58:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Because ‘working together’ on Ferguson means nothing unless white privilege gets used for change – and defers to the black experience.
In the days since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed in broad daylight by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri – amid the flurry of media coverage, the teargas and the wooden bullets, the shameless character shaming of Brown, and the gut-sick heartbreak of his family – all I keep thinking is: Make it stop, white people.
You are the ones who created this godforsaken racist system by using your circumstantial power and privilege 400 years ago to institutionalize white supremacy. Now use that power and privilege you still have, 400 years later, to dismantle it.
And please don’t quibble about whether you have any direct lineage to the architects of racism. You are benefitting from it, so you have a direct responsibility to figure out how to undo it. Because maybe you’ve seen what happens when we black people try to undo it in 2014 – they call in the National Guard.
In between talking with my son to both protect him from the same fate as Michael Brown and empower him to walk tall in his skin, I have tweeted and posted on Facebook about this all week to no avail. Some white friends and acquaintances have said their silence is not complicity, or that we all need to work together. More pointedly, it was suggested in one thread comment that my upbringing – adopted by two white parents and raised in a majority white town – imparts a certain privilege that does not allow me to truly understand the racism toward black people in places like Ferguson.
But cops in places like Ferguson don’t see my white parents – that I learned early on....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Some things just are not worth reading.
This is absolutely pathetic.
Oh, you really should. If you believe that everything is kumbaya and we’ll all get along soon once the Messiah fixes everything, race-wise, read this and the other articles like it and get woke up.
Question: Why are white people scared of black people’s rage at Mike Brown’s death?
Answer: Because (MOST/many) black people assault white people, rob white people, rape white people, intimidate white people, accuse white people, and generally despise white people fully as much as any KKK gang member hate black people..
AND........ almost NEVER come to white peoples aid against fellow blacks..
“endangered”
Wow.
It is about the refuge I feel in the face of another black person, and the intrinsic joy at the base of my belly when I enter a room full of black people.
Time to check your privilege, Ms. Carroll. No white commentator could make an equivalent statement and still have a job the next day.
Mike Brown was a street thug who got himself killed after committing a strong arm robbery and then assaulting a police officer whom he thought was going to arrest him. Had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with race.
August 8-Black America: Hey, why is government letting illegals take all our jobs?
August 9-Liberal Media: Hey, a white cop just shot a black kid!!!
Okay, then I say: Impose a curfew, arrest all looters, and carry out a vigorous investigation of the original shooting.
There! I figured it out! Re-establish Law & Order! Satisfied?
Regards,
*Oh, and by the way: How did I benefit from racism, growing up in a small town in 1950s Minnesota that was 98.5% White?
Here’s an example of what the MSM is generating...
Warning Graphic violence and language:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=706026756100027&fref=nf
everything is racism...
...except hating whitey
We are not scared, we are disgusted and bewildered.
Bewildered at how a group of our fellow countrymen, who between the years of 1776-1964 made such impressive, remarkable and historic progress could in 50 years allow itself to be completely emasculated and gelded to the point where they will swallow the most idiotic of lies and dribble from a handful of self-righteous and wicked white liberal-progressives and undo all the TRUE progress their ancestors reversed. Malcolm X was absolutely correct when he said “political chumps.”
Did all the successful Asian professionals in the U.S. also benefit from “white privilege”?
Sometimes this stuff is hard to figure out...
I’ll have her know that they weren’t wooden bullets, they were wooden earplugs. :-)
I've got news for her... my opinion of what's going on would be exactly the same if the cop was black and the perp who got killed was white.
“Rebecca Carroll was recently named managing editor at Black Voices, part of the Huffington Post Media Platform.”
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