I saw this video on a friend’s FB feed. I laughed and cried. We have so much work to do. By we, for now, I mean White people in the USA. I hope we can ride this recent wave of awareness in the media of violence by White police officers to people of color. Much more needs to change, I hope we can see that. I hope we can change.
Now that I’ve done some more work on my inner self I feel more comfortable pointing the type of comments and attitudes in this video in daily life. I get strange looks of course, especially in my neighborhood (Upper Queen Anne, Seattle). I know that shame is involoved and we defend ourselves with those kind of looks and rebutals. As if I don’t have the right to point out racsim to an aquiantence or someone I just met. As if you’ve got the right to be Racist. I guess you do, and that’s the problem. Deep cultural changing work will be done with longterm relationships anyway, I’ve found that I must do something. We’ve got to do something! I have much more to say. That’s all that’s going to be said on Christmas Day +1 when I have a sugar cookie hangover.
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