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In reply to the discussion: White Fragility Digest #1: 13 May 2018 [View all]MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Just to let you know, I'm pretty much identifying with the black people in each of these incidents and not the fragile white people who were triggered by being within earshot or eye sight of blackness and had responded accordingly.
- For the black patron who was implicitly accused of being a thief by the store manager, I don't seem to see any love in that manager's harassment.
Do you? Kind of hard to find it there.
- Or the young white student who seems to identify much, much more with the white (or otherwise) cops and their guns, who kill unarmed black people, than he does the unarmed black people who were killed by those cops with their guns. Sounds to me that he's implying that black people should be summarily executed in the streets and in their homes for whatever excuse the cops are using that day.
Do you think that he relied upon love in his heart when he tore down the mural in that school?
- And for the politician who claims that black people should be racially profiled by the police for merely the heinous crime of being black. Well, perhaps you can demonstrate how that's an act of love. Because, I can't seem to see it.
Perhaps, rather than observing these incidents from my own perspective as a black person living in America under systematic white supremacy, you could rely upon your own perspective as a white person, who's also the recipient of unearned white privileges, to point out what I'm missing here.
Yeah... Show me the love, baby! I'd love to see it.