White privilege is on display like never before in the U.S. Capitol.
If these people were Black. . .well, we all know what would be happening right now to them.
The @WNBA and @nba are saying to America: We will not be your entertainment if you can’t respect our Black lives! You don’t get to cheer for us on the court, if you can’t stand for and by us in life.
Additional authors include @DrMarinoBruce1, @Haley_Barge, Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH, @tlaveist, and Daniel L. Howard, PhD.
Congratulations to them all!
Whenever the topic of diversity comes up, I think about this quote from @ava.
“Diversity is not one in the room. Diversity is not two in the room. Diversity is not three in the room. True diversity is half the room.”
IF ARABS ARE HOLDING THESE RIFFLES, THEY ARE TERRORISTS.
IF LATINOS ARE HOLDING THESE RIFFLES, THEY ARE CRIMINALS .
IF BLACKS ARE HOLDING THESE RIFFLES, THEY ARE A THREAT.
WHAT A WHITE PRIVILEGE.
If you’re unbothered or mildly bothered by the 1st knee, but outraged by the 2nd, then, in my father’s words, you’re “more devoted to order than to justice.” And more passionate about an anthem that supposedly symbolizes freedom than you are about a Black man’s freedom to live.