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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a white person, I am grieving how prolific the white hatred of people of color is right now, 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.

We haven’t needed to actively participate in a shooting or call in an erroneous harassment report or drive our knees into a stranger’s neck to be culpable for it all: our silence has been as deadly and that’s the story here. Racism doesn’t get this prolific and profitable and emboldened without our our inaction, without our abstinence, without our averted glances and uneasy truces and sidestepped difficult conversations.

We can’t pretend to understand the injustices people of color go through, but what we can do is stand up and refuse to remain silent.

Without decades of largely unabated and unchecked violence, a white police officer doesn’t press the life out of George Floyd in the middle of the day knowing he is being recorded.

Without a leader who offers “both sides” false equivalencies after a car plows through peaceful Charlottesville marchers, we don’t have armed crowds assembling at state capitols to intimidate politicians in a pandemic that is dis proportionally decimating communities of color.

White Americans need to reckon with the reality:

America is still set up for the Amy Coopers and not the Christian Coopers.[/quote]

Very well said and thank you for saying it![/quote]

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