On the anniversary of Emmett Till's lynching, so many non-black folks assume they would have stopped it. That's not true, tho.
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The same exact people that never once tweeted, called a friend, wrote a post, or went to a protest about Tamir Rice. Or other black lives.
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I know it's comforting to and think: 1) things would have been different had I been around then and 2) things like that no longer happen
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But the fact of the matter is that you would have made the same excuses for not centering black lives 61 years ago that you do today.
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"I would have taken a clear, unequivocal stance against lynching in 1955!" –same person who can't say #BlackLivesMatter
in 2016
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