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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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."
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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in any case, because we live as "them" and in the vise of being "them" but not wanting to be "them" but not wanting to not be "them"...
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