Are you disturbed yet? Are you really understanding what has been going on in our society for decades? Do you truly understand the social injustices that continue to occur? That we are NOT a “post-racial” society? That systems of power, privilege, and oppression are still in full force? Wake Up, Realize, Learn, Challenge the system, become a Change Agent!
Truly disturbing…
In a society full of ambivalent individuals, what happens to people that are not them, and that they are distanced from, is humorous. In their mind they will never have to deal with them, and if they are not young black males, then they are probably right. This kind of callous bullshit comes from consistant desensitization to what others are going through, Americans in recent generations have been taught to be about themselves first, primarily and then only.
Racism in this country is deeply ingrained and most of us are wholey unprepared for a serious conversation on race.
But the time is now. It has gone on for too long, and the way that we are all so “plugged in” and connected by technology means that we need to begin the conversations now