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Yes, You Are Racist: Uncover Your Own Racism First
When we check our own prejudices, we begin to see one another
Outrage and ourselves
There is something that has been gnawing at me for days, as if the racial injustice turned to fire and tears, was not enough of a distraction.
The unjust death of George Floyd has resulted in a global protest against tyranny. Today is Wednesday, I don’t know just how much the world will be in conflagration by the time this article is published. I don’t know if peaceful protest will win out against outrageous force and “domination”; the word our president uses to urge calm.
What bothers me as much is something else.
It is the fact that although a policeman, Derek Chauvin, was charged with the murder of George Floyd, the other killers were not. But that is only the first half of my gnawed consciousness. The other part is that, there are so many stories out there about the incident in Central Park where Amy Cooper, a white woman, threatened to call the cops on Christian Cooper, a black man.
Many people are expressing outrage, rightfully, at Derek Chauvin, the cop visibly snuffing our George Floyd’s life. The other cops, who also obstructed the man’s ability to breathe, are not eliciting such anger…