Via Awesomely Luvvie.
White people, I’m talking to you. THIS. IS. YOUR. PROBLEM. TO. FIX. Y’all got some work to do, because this system that y’all keep on privileging from, you’ve got to help us dismantle it. Because those of us who are Black and Brown. We have tried. You created this robot, and it is yours to deactivate. My skinfolk don’t have the passcode. This is your monster to slay.
Does this persuade you? Will you change your evil ways because Luvvie told you to?
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Depends. Who plays lead guitar in Luvvie’s band?
Leslie West. Duh.
I notice you didn’t give your answers. You trolling, bro?
Nope. I had my say already. Your turn.
No, I’ll probably go on just being nice to everyone, assessing people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. If that constitutes white privilege, guilty as charged.
The scenario as she outlines it isn’t as simple as she makes it out to be, and is about as silly in its assumptions as the old SNL sketch where Eddie Murphy disguised himself as a white man and got his privilege on.
Cops need better training, particularly with the BS “us vs them” mindset as well as appropriate ways of interacting with the public that don’t end in death. There was a great article in the washington post yesterday written by Amy B Wang about a police encounter with a young black man in Benicia, CA that is the exact opposite of the multiple tragic stories we have come to expect.
No. My ancestors were scrabling in the dirt in Italy when all the slavery was going on. None of my relatives have ever had anything to do with oppressing anyone (other than me, as a child ) and I have no guilt whatsoever about their problems. To quote the late great former mayor of DC, they should all get over it.
No, it didn’t persuade me, but I was already there. I followed a different path. I don’t experience driving while black, walking while black, stop and frisk. I haven’t been chased or shot in the back because I looked at a cop, or didn’t look at one who wanted me to look. None of my friends have been killed by the police. So I don’t know about white privilege the way this writer does. Maybe changing the words to say that I don’t suffer black detriment will make the conversation easier and more productive.
But difficult or not, it is a conversation I want to have.
There’s no conversation involved. You’ve been told what to do. Just bend over and do it.
“He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?” – Micah 6:8
“”The second is this, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:31
I’m trying to learn and live these. It’s not easy. Ignorance and fear get in the way far too often.