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rp @moemotivate: Collectively speaking, people of color don’t trust the police any more than we collectively trust white people to actually collectively care for our lives. Just look at people who are protesting and standing against the injustice of people of color. It’s disproportionately people of color. And look who condemns our efforts towards equality—it’s disproportionately white people.
Furthermore, the police were not here to serve and protect us then, but we’re there to enforce the racist laws of the land. And sadly, today not much has changed. Sure there are plenty of police officers who take their oath seriously and wear their badges with pride and honor. There are many who serve and protect all of us, but there are far too many who don’t. And they’re making the whole force look dangerous to people of color. Especially when they stand in silence against injustice or side with the injustice.
When we can see time and time again where police are able to murder unarmed black men, women and children and get away with it while white people can shoot up churches and be apprehended alive and taken to lunch or when a black man shoots and kills a white woman and he can be tried and found guilty we can see the brutal disparities.
If you are paying attention you will see the patterns of brutality and understand the outrage. But if your first response to these shootings is to find reason to side with the actions of the police, because you believe that the police are indeed here to serve and protect all people—to reason with this racism, then you’ll miss the patterns every time. If you want to find fault and blame in the victim and declare that they deserved to be murdered in the street then your complicity in this brutally oppressive system will blind you from the truth every time.
But if you want to see the truth then you will have to listen to us.
And even if you don’t understand—you’ll have to take our word for it.
And we’re saying, loud and clear, “stop killing us”. We need police reform. Our lives matter despite living in a society that treats us otherwise. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
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rp @moemotivate: Collectively speaking, people of color don’t trust the police any more than we collectively trust white people to actually collectively care for our lives. Just look at people who are protesting and standing against the injustice of people of color. It’s disproportionately people of color. And look who condemns our efforts towards equality—it’s disproportionately white people.
Furthermore, the police were not here to serve and protect us then, but we’re there to enforce the racist laws of the land. And sadly, today not much has changed. Sure there are plenty of police officers who take their oath seriously and wear their badges with pride and honor. There are many who serve and protect all of us, but there are far too many who don’t. And they’re making the whole force look dangerous to people of color. Especially when they stand in silence against injustice or side with the injustice.
When we can see time and time again where police are able to murder unarmed black men, women and children and get away with it while white people can shoot up churches and be apprehended alive and taken to lunch or when a black man shoots and kills a white woman and he can be tried and found guilty we can see the brutal disparities.
If you are paying attention you will see the patterns of brutality and understand the outrage. But if your first response to these shootings is to find reason to side with the actions of the police, because you believe that the police are indeed here to serve and protect all people—to reason with this racism, then you’ll miss the patterns every time. If you want to find fault and blame in the victim and declare that they deserved to be murdered in the street then your complicity in this brutally oppressive system will blind you from the truth every time.
But if you want to see the truth then you will have to listen to us.
And even if you don’t understand—you’ll have to take our word for it.
And we’re saying, loud and clear, “stop killing us”. We need police reform. Our lives matter despite living in a society that treats us otherwise. - #diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems