Black and Brown People Have Been Protesting for Centuries. It’s White People Who Are Responsible for What Happens Next.
BY SAVALA TREPCZYNSKI JUNE 1, 2020 1:32 PM EDT
In this country, we have thousands of white people who consider themselves aware of the pain racism can cause, and who could never imagine themselves inflicting it—but then do. …
It’s how we get, for example, progressive colleagues who nevertheless call us by the name of the other black woman we work with[…] it is also how we get cops—people who presumably have dedicated themselves to a life of service—literally suffocating black people like George Floyd as they beg for their lives. It is also how we get these moments repeatedly.
Phrased differently, it is white people (especially progressive white people) who are responsible for what happens now.
Savala Trepczynski, Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law.
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