The Charlottesville Crisis Proves That White 'Pride' ≠ Black Pride

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First of all, what are you even mad at? It's ridiculous to me that someone could seriously be mad that people who have been forgotten about, beaten, brutalized, and berated are demanding a normal life free from those atrocities. If that upsets you, we are not the problem; you are. Why is my comfort and equality threatening to you?

What this Neo Nazi gathering really tells us is that a bunch of white men are mad because we are dismantling their white, male privilege. I am between emotions as I think about what happened in Charlottesville because it parallels so many sensitive times in history that this generation hoped to never have to live through, yet here we are.

We have an openly racist president who encourages police to retreat to their bigotry and deems it a joke - except that it's not a joke. It's real life. It's my life; it's our lives. They matter. Until that is conclusively iterated, I don't want to hear that BLM is racist; that Kaepernick is unpatriotic; that cultural appropriation is not problematic; that Mexicans need to go back to 'their' country; that this is some white man's country (it's not); that Muslims are terrorists. The real terrorist threat is the one incubated by Trump and company - the one we saw in Charlottesville. I'm at a loss for words right now, but those are my thoughts on Charlottesville.

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