White Silence Is Enabling American Racism
Equity comes when the beneficiaries of inequity demand it the loudest.
Racism is a prolific and creative killer.
It is entrepreneurial in its malice and it will use whatever means necessary to eliminate those it is threatened by and fearful of.
The breadth of its arsenal and the scope of its tactics are staggering:
It will execute young black men in the street and it will assassinate their character on social media.
It will shoot human beings with guns and with cell phones.
It will enact its violence with knees into men’s necks until they cannot breathe, and with calls to the police feigning their own breathless terror.
It will brutalize bodies and it will impugn reputations.
It will wield white hoods and red hats and yoga pants and police badges as it does its expansive, hurtful, dehumanizing work.
As a white person here in America, I am grieving how loud and how prevalent the white hatred of people of color still is, but more than that I’m grieving how comfortable white Americans have all made it, the unimpeded path we’ve provided it, the way we’ve cooperated with it, participated…
