White People, Please Stop Using Your Well-Meaning Outrage to Bypass the Real Work that Needs to be Done
If I may, I would just like to have a word with the other white folks like me who consider themselves to be anti-racism. This segment of the population has a hard time realizing how they’re part of the problem. Just because you’re not a hater and just because you care about racial equality doesn’t mean you get to rest on your laurels. Chances are, you’re perpetuating racial tensions without even knowing it. I’m having a hard time today as I observe all of the outcries against the racial injustices that are blowing up the internet because what I am observing is all of the well meaning white people doing what well meaning white people always do — making it about them while thinking they’re talking about justice. When will this stop? I am so upset! (notice how you’re talking about yourself?) I am shocked and irate by the news today. (notice how you’re talking about yourself?) I am outraged that this has happened yet again! (notice how you’re still talking about yoursel