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In reply to the discussion: Another simple but excellent way to understand what "white privilege' is. [View all]TigressDem
(5,126 posts)In the civil rights marches, whites who supported the black cause were also killed.
Have you seen a BLM protest crowd and how many white people are right in there getting tear gas and rubber bullets right along side the black protesters?
What makes you think we aren't afraid of the police too?
And of the stupid Boogaloo Bois killing white folk and blaming it on BLM? Or Antifa?
https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
During the aftermath of the George Floyd murder before they brought the National Guard to Minneapolis, my son was on our OWN door step, actually with the door open so he was technically IN HIS OWN HOME and had his cell phone recording an interaction with police and some people they pulled over, he thought they were Latinos.
"Just making sure everyone is safe, officer." That officer had a rifle trained on my son, laser sight on his chest. I was standing right beside him.
My son kept talking and reiterating his right to be in his own home and observe this situation. Now yes, that might be white privilege and in some ways my son is a stupid "tRumpie" I could throw in the Mississippi River at times, but that night he used his white card to make sure those people didn't get mistreated.
Still, if you stand up for people of color in these situations, white MIGHT keep you from dying, might not.