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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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"
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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nice platitudes about how "there's no us vs them" deny one of the core aspects of our experience. So! How can well-meaning white ppl...
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