Feigning ignorance or a lack of complicity is no longer acceptable – we must all work together to counter endemic prejudice in AmericaIt is time for a collective reckoning,a moral accounting, a radical self-appraisal and calling out, and fellow white Americans. Our explicit and implicit participation in crimes against black people has gone on for too long.
What allows us to justify murder? What selfish gene prevents us from intervening in the face of blatant injustice? What history of lies and distortions have we sold ourselves that keep us in our loney boxes of superiority and denial? What truth would we have to bid approximately ourselves to unravel these strangulating tentacles of racism and violence? Related: I was a cop – but I still don't know how to survive a police pause | Michael A Wood Related: Dallas is a tragedy for all of us – and shouldn't shut down calls for justice | Ijeoma Oluo Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com