I take jokes of white supremacists very seriously.
This guy Jeremy Christian was throwing up these hand signs as a "joke" & a week later he killed 2 ppl
All white supremacist policies start off as jokes FIRST
I could say the same about you.
Your talking points sound good when your around your buddies. They sound good when no-one is there to call you out.
Genocides unfold in eight stages. Stopping it at any one stage, stops the genocide from going forward.
Racism grows and feeds off a culture of silence. The point of calling out racism is to break down that silence. That's why I ALWAYS-ALWAYS call it out.
It does not matter if you persuade anyone. What matters is that you were heard and planted that seed in people’s minds of, “Hey, maybe this is not right"
Elizabeth Eckford was one of the first black students to go to Little Rock Central High School in the American South (And bear in mind she was from a two parent family. Once again - Did the white supremacist lay of her because of that ?)
That school was a hell for her because the 90% who were not giving her hell would not stand up to the 10% who were.
Calling out racism matters more when it comes from whites.
Because everyone thinks white people are way more objective and neutral about racism than blacks. That's the Tim Wise Effect.
Black people calling out racism ? Well - Whites and others generally discount what blacks say, it is part of their cultural conditioning, but they still hear it. They hear what we say and, just as important, what we don't say. If something racist goes down and blacks say nothing ? Whites will assume that it's “not so bad”. Especially since many whites assume blacks are “oversensitive”.
I don't need to and I don't want to if you want the truth
Now that's a 100% lie
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