whether you want to know what white male privilege looks like,glance at the podium on inauguration day. No black man could be elected with Trumps life story In his 2014 grand jury testimony over the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, or police officer Darren Wilson described Brown less like a human being than a possessed animal. “He looked up at me and had the most intense aggressive face. The only way I can represent it,it looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked.”The image he conjured of Brown, or even after he shot him,was of a man both physically superhuman and emotionally subhuman. “He was almost bulking up to hurry through the shots, like it was making him crazy that I’m shooting him. And the face that he had was looking straight through me, or like I wasn’t even there,I wasn’t even anything in his way.” Related: Barack Obama's original sin: America's post-racial illusion Often negotiating with himself before he negotiated with others, he was serene to a faultObama was less of an example for how black men should live their lives ... as an illustration of how many actually liveContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com