@schakalsynthetc What I am saying is that both need to get over trust issues in order that they can integrate. Can't be 100% white police.
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Replying to @nouswaves
@sebinsua first, white people need to stop making our actions conditional on being trusted by people who have *no good reason* to trust us.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@schakalsynthetc That is a horrifying model. What I am talking about has nothing to do with a white persons perception of a coloured person.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @nouswaves
@schakalsynthetc It has everything to do with a coloured person looking at the authority which might piss them off and instead of hating it1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @nouswaves
@schakalsynthetc realising that within exist people that are actually not that bad, and taking the opportunity which might exist to join it1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @nouswaves
@schakalsynthetc and change it for the better from within.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @nouswaves
@schakalsynthetc After this there may well be a outstretched hands from within that can be shook by only those that have faith they exist.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @nouswaves
@sebinsua oh, I promise you everybody, absolutely everybody, already knows they EXIST.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@schakalsynthetc I worry that when people fight they put up walls they cannot see over and forget that there are people behind those walls.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @nouswaves
@sebinsua I worry that people I know and care about may be murdered, with impunity, because someone feared them when they had no reason to1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@schakalsynthetc That's an understandable and immediate worry. I do not mean to lessen it, but point towards long-term trust-building.
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Replying to @nouswaves
@sebinsua right now that - and I am white, so I'm not saying this lightly - is OUR move. OURS. nobody else's. it's "put up or shut up" time.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @schakalsynthetc
@schakalsynthetc Yes. For now. In the interest in turning this all into a game... Sigh.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - 11 more replies
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