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• Pay attention to everything that happens next, because it’s a great example of just about everything white people should never do. Heck, much of it is everything no one should ever do.
• As I said, pay attention to things you should never do. Touching Black hair is one of them.
• Now, I’ve already said that before college I wasn’t the most woke person, and I certainly let white people slide with a lot of things. But the n-word was always off-limits for anyone who isn’t Black. Doesn’t matter if it’s with an “a” or an “er”—if you aren’t Black, don’t say it. Also, remember, I don’t condone violence, but I did what any self-res...
• As with my story at the concert, many white people don’t have to think about the repercussions of their actions in the same way that people of color do, or sometimes at all. This is the very definition of white privilege. At best, this privilege makes them feel free to do what others can’t do and, at worst, to do things that disrespect or oppress o...
• This is the same racism and white privilege that allow young white men to disrespect young Black people, yet the police are ready to kill the young Black man for standing up for himself.