White People: I Dont Want You To Understand Me Better, I Want You To Understand Yourselves

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12. I absolutely disagree that there is "nothing in it" for white people to fight racism

We are in many ways the canary in the coalmine for what is going to be done for everyone, we're the dry run for whatever kind of oppression society is trying to foist on people.

In the 1980s it was drugs ravaging urban black communities and society not giving a shit, today it's drugs ravaging urban white communities and society not giving a shit.

Before it was COINTELPRO and mass incarceration, today it's Gitmo and indefinite detention

It was the systematic violence against black workers who tried to organize for their rights, now the same is being extended to everyone.

Conversely, it's always racism that derails or weakens movements of the people that seek to address injustice. And injustice will happen to white people and the invisible knapsack won't feed them, mend them or take care of them in their old age. They decided we weren't worthy of being taken care of by society (welfare queens and strapping young bucks) but now that the GOP is threatening their Medicare, Social Security and the ACA (which in their minds was totally different from the achievement of our BLACK president), guess what? They're the welfare queens now.

The irony is that many cling to white privilege because that's all they got in their minds, but if they let go of that privilege, in time, they'd have a lot more than what they got.