To My Fellow White Americans,
To the confused, the scared, the misinformed, and the intentionally ignorant, the purpose of the African Americans protesting, is simple. They are not wanting to take over America, take your jobs, your neighborhoods, or your place in society. They want to stand side by side as equals. They want to be treated as the citizens they are. They want to be treated as good as tourists from other countries are treated.
You want to say there are violent people on TV every day on the news that validate the need for harsh policing. You want to say they have the same chance to climb up and out of whatever situation they are born in to as we are.
How can someone pull out of a place when they aren’t given the rungs of the ladder, or better yet, when they don’t have a foundation to put the ladder on in the first place?
This is not a lie. Facts are facts. I’ve worked in the system. Even in good school systems I’ve seen children falling short, not always because of the school, but because of their lives at home. Their lives at home? Lives that are the way they are due to lack of good jobs due to either education, or the perceived lack of African American’s ability to handle certain jobs.
Systemic? Yes. We may not realize it, but it is there if you start reverse engineering it. If you do not see it, then you are blind or do not have life’s engineering degree.
Ronovan
Writing from Georgia, the Deep South.
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Hi Ron, this is a brilliant post you make so much sense. Sadly there are so many who are too bigoted and willfully blind to see the truth as it screams at them.
I will never understand why the colour of your skin marks you out and defines you. Why we are all the same underneath. I agree with every word you say.
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Seconded.
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🖤💜🖤🖤💜
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The strange thing is there are mor who see and would like to do something about it but are not in the power positions. That being said, they don’t realize the power they havee, but it needs a united effort, because all it takes is one break in the dam for it to crack and everything rush back to the way it was, just as one crack can let the waters run through and destroy the idyllic world people have created in the shadow of the nature they’ve held back. (I have no idea of any of that makes sense.)
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Small things can turn a river. If only each would try – small things in their own places. It builds.
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Wonderful words Ron
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Thank you.
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Excellent
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Well said, but the fact that you even need to explain this to people is criminal 😦
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Not long ago, I found it hard to believe that there was anything to be gained by the oppression of Black, Indigenous, or any other non-white people. It wasn’t logical, it didn’t make sense. It still doesn’t unless you consider three things. Power. Control. Money.
It’s shameful that it took us/me so long to realize that. There is no excuse for not seeing the truth.
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Well said Ron.
Pat
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