Column: No, white people. You can't ease your guilt over racism by paying black people
That these violent uprisings and peaceful protests are happening all over California speaks to something black people know well and others ignore.
Or it could be that these messages reflect a new level of white guilt brought on by a new level of black rage. The unrest over Floyd has done nothing if not rip away the facade, making it clear that the United States, including liberal California, is steeped in systemic racism — from the criminal justice system to the economy.found that a majority of Americans now agree that police are more likely to use excessive force against black people than white people in similar situations.
That maybe the college they attended, the house and the business they own, the car they drive were easier attain because they didn’t, say, get popped for smoking weed like the black folks a neighborhood over or that they didn’t have trouble getting a loan from a bank like millions of people of color do every year.
Another thing not to do is ask black people — especially black people you barely know — to teach you about racism or to give you a list of books to read about racism.“Use your internet. It’s the same thing I’m about to do,” said my friend Tre Borden, a L.A.-based art consultant. “If you’re not willing to read on your own and you want me read for you, I don’t trust you to liberate me anytime soon.”
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