I’m definitely not in favor of ignoring racism. I’m definitely for equality that is maintainable. I am also not in favor of looting and pillaging your own neighborhoods. As I said, I get the outrage. There are a lot of people making their voice heard and. Winning hearts, and that’s a good thing. There are cops and mayors joining the outcrying public.
Pretending a protest is about one person doesn’t address the systemic problem. Pretending it’s not about the systemic problem and using that to justify further violence doesn’t work either.
My point was that if it’s systemic than BLM can’t claim that it’s only Black voices that matter. If it’s systemic, take it to the system and make then feel the outrage. If the goal is equality stop shooting yourself in the foot by not practicing what you preach. I saw a protest. Where the black organizers thanked their white supporters but asked for space and moved them to the peripheral. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I’m not naive enough that I think the lines we all draw can change overnight and I’m not sure if they can. My only point in asking the questions was how do we devalue those lines so there can be less emotionalism and tribalism and more individual worth and communication.
Pretending a protest is about one person doesn’t address the systemic problem. Pretending it’s not about the systemic problem and using that to justify further violence doesn’t work either.
My point was that if it’s systemic than BLM can’t claim that it’s only Black voices that matter. If it’s systemic, take it to the system and make then feel the outrage. If the goal is equality stop shooting yourself in the foot by not practicing what you preach. I saw a protest. Where the black organizers thanked their white supporters but asked for space and moved them to the peripheral. That seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I’m not naive enough that I think the lines we all draw can change overnight and I’m not sure if they can. My only point in asking the questions was how do we devalue those lines so there can be less emotionalism and tribalism and more individual worth and communication.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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