Me:
When I talk about the harms of โwhitenessโ Iโm NOT saying that having white skin = bad. Iโm referring to the domination of political/economic/social spaces by a demographic majority & the unethical ways in which that power imbalance is maintained. OK?
My white friends:
Bob Vylan speaks out amid outrage over chanting โdeath to the IDFโ during their #Glastonbury set.
โWe are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people. We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine. A machine whose own soldiers were told to use โunnecessary lethal forceโ against innocent civilians waiting for aid. A machine that has destroyed much of Gaza... We, like those in the spotlight before us, are not the story. We are a distraction from from the story. And whatever sanctions we receive will be a distraction.โ
Read more here: https://t.co/W3ckLI1fSX
โIt may well be that we will have to repent in this generation, not merely for the vitriolic words of the bad people and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say โWait on time.โโ
#MLKDay
@MatthewACherry Would love to see (another) love story starring Charlayne Woodard & Samuel L Jackson. All of their scenes together in Secret Invasion are incredible!