White people are a huge chunk of the population, so BLM protesters are much less likely to get police reform if they alienate large swaths of the white population. This article suggests a better strategy:https://quillette.com/2018/05/24/folly-racialized-criminal-justice-reform-debate/ …
It's completely up to you whether to be righteous or strategic. Weigh the benefits of righteous indignation against effective communication which produces change.
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I'm not quite so sanguine that effective communication will produce change. In honesty, and I don't mean this to be rude to anyone, but it's going to take confrontation and even mockery to cast a spotlight on all the ways people of color get treated in America.
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The Philadelphia Starbucks, the BBQ in Oakland, the two kids prom shopping, the woman yelling "gun" at an innocent Hispanic in Las Vegas, and several more just in the last couple weeks. This kind of shit goes on *all* the time. If you're not paying attention, and most white...
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people aren't, you're not going to see it. If you can't see it, you won't understand the need for us to collectively change. Final point, to reiterate: it's not up to people of color to change white racism. White people need to look closely in the mirror. Is that really so hard?
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It's pretty meaningless. Because they'll all see different things. So do people of colour, actually, so listening to them usually means listening to the ones you already agree with
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