Justin Scott
Jul 24, 2017 · 2 min read

Stay salty, bro.

Here’s the thing, whether things get fixed or they don’t isn’t really a physical threat to my white ass. If the status quo is maintained, it’ll be injustice, and I won’t like it, but my chances of living with it are far far better than yours.

If you think white people, even empowered ones, can just wave a magic wand and fix things, let me turn your coach bag back into a pumpkin. Privilege isn’t magic. It’s going to take advocacy, education, and a whole lot of grunt work to get even slight changes in a rather entrenched society.

Now, I’m not sure if you are just another internet tough guy. Maybe you were alongside me, dodging pepperballs on West Florissant in Ferguson, maybe you weren’t.

However, if you actually give a shit about fixing things, you’re going to need some people who look like me. I don’t really value the opinion you’ve espoused, but some might, and telling white people who’ve legitimately shed tears, blood, time, effort, and money for people like Michael Brown, and Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner, and Philando Castile that they do not exist might make them want to fuck off on helping. It just makes this a longer, slower more difficult process.

Or I guess we can agree to disagree, but I get to continue enjoying the benefits of the system, and you don’t. I’m pretty sure, as you are probably too, that Justine Damond will receive justice, that Mohammed Noor is going to jail. Neither of us are going to pretend to be surprised.

Are you still going to be salty? The next dash cam of the week footage will probably be a cop who looks more like me shooting someone who looks more like you.

You can point the finger at me forever, and I’ll just point one back.