"White people, your silence on racial issues isn’t helping. If you’re not
speaking out against it, I have no choice but to assume that you’re
probably for it. White people have to denounce racism and prejudice when
hate crimes like the shooting in Emanuel A.M.E. in Charleston, S.C.
happen. Don’t act like this is an isolated incident of just a crazy
person. Don’t try to blame this guy’s actions on a dysfunctional
relationship with his parents. Don’t try to deflect from the actual
issue—which is this disease called racism—and say that it was an attack
on faith and not Black people. Don’t be like Meet The Press
host Chuck Todd and say, “We simply ask you to look at this as a color
blind issue. It’s simply gun violence.” How is this simply about gun
violence when Dylann Roof told us what this was about? He wanted to kill
Black people!!! Gun violence has nothing to do with this one, buddy,
because racist White people have been killing Black people for centuries
and the gun wasn’t always the weapon of choice. Anybody remember
nooses? How quickly we forget."
Read rest here
No comments:
Post a Comment