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My fellow white people - Steven Colbert on twitter: (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2020
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handmade34
(23,951 posts)1. change will not happen
until white people become uncomfortable and really start to squirm...
well said Colbert
applegrove
(131,038 posts)2. 64% of americans are with the protesters. 9% are not sure. That makes
73% who are not for structural racism. That has to include a few white people.
handmade34
(23,951 posts)4. opinions are cheap
(not to sound trite but) ...I do believe that all of those 73% in some respect oppose structural racism... but words are different that action and actually giving something up or acquiescing to a different power structure can be threatening
white privilege is so deep for many of use that we don't know what it would be like without it...
https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf
Solly Mack
(96,641 posts)7. Well said.
Rhiannon12866
(252,158 posts)3. K&R for an excellent message!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. K&R
Cha
(317,702 posts)6. TY Colbert!
mercuryblues
(16,234 posts)8. What are you afraid of?
*some* are afraid that they will be treated the same way they treat black people.
