If the white people in my life could hit a button and instantly remove the privileges afforded to them along racial lines, would they hit that button?
In the days immediately following the widespread media circulation of the video displaying George Floyd’s tragic killing at the hands of Minnesota police officers, my phone buzzed incessantly with text messages from white friends and colleagues. As protests erupted around the nation, in the wake of additional incidences of state sanctioned violence towards Black Americans, these messages too increased. Some texts featured a preamble of apology, well-wishes and a disclaimer that “no reply was necessary”. Others were phrased in the form of questions: “Is there anything you need? What can I do? Do you have a money transferring app where I can give you something to ease your troubles?” A few made the offer to have me redirect other white people to them for educational purposes while I “protected my energy and emotional labor”.
Though the digital age has been pivotal in the swift dissemination and visibility of the blatant racism and violence that have marred the nation’s culture since its inception, these most recent incidents of heinousness, coupled with an increased online emphasis on silence, inaction and complicity, seem to have been able to infiltrate the collective conscience of white liberals. Beyond the assertion that Black lives matter, which has been the battle cry of contemporary racial justice movements, advocates and activists have now undergirded their messages with a charge aimed at white Americans broadly, however well-intentioned: your silence is noticed. You are complicit. You are guilty too.
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