Okay so this picture is beautiful but captions like this are a part of dehumanizing black people and devaluing black experience.https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/901991659134701568 …
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(I'm sure this is true of other marginalized groups as well, but I'll just speak as a black person cause I know more about us).
Start with the obvious: it is easier to say "there's no us and them" when you have always been "us" and you've never experienced "them."
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Most black people in America have experienced "them." And if we haven't, it's bc we spend every day of our lives proving we belong to "us."
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In fact, I bet when this guy saved these kids, consciously or not, part of his brain thought, "oh yeah, I'm really proving that I'm an Us"
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