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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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."
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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obviously not in those words, but we can't help but think, all the time, about how we've proving our humanity through extraordinary acts.
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