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Please Don’t Tell Us How to Feel About George Floyd
Our mourning and protests are about so much more than one man.
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People can become frustratingly obtuse when they’re trying to convince the world — and themselves — that they are good. For some defensive White people, trying to reassert their personal valor and that of their race has become a full-time mission.
They sneer and deny deny deny: Systemic racism and White privilege can’t possibly be a thing because what would that say about them?
Denying it in the face of so much evidence to the contrary only makes them look worse. But desperate times call for desperate measures and the measures seem to be getting more desperate every day.
I keep coming across comments and social media posts in which White people bring up the senseless murder of a White person by a cop or the senseless murder of a White person by a Black person and ask: Why haven’t those victims been an ongoing part of the 24-hour news cycle? Where are their televised funerals?
If White people were being systematically eliminated by Blacks in positions of power and one nearly nine-minute murder was caught on camera, that victim would become the symbol of a cause as…
