Your Comfort is My Terror
I know that you love me and all of the black and brown people in your life--and so, clearly you are not racist, right? Many of you are not. (However, proximity doesn't have anything to do with whether or not you are racist.) I'm not talking to those who are racist, at the moment--certainly not to those who recognize their racist beliefs or behaviors. I'm addressing my white friends and others who don't recognize how damaging their choices are (although they are clearly their rights), to people of color. Your vote for individuals who are hell-bent on turning the clock backwards on our rights is dangerous to our "pursuit to happiness", and our very right to exist. Your failure to dig deeper than Fox News, Newsmax, Breitbart and social media for your "facts" is life-threatening for me and a whole segment of society. While you amen Tucker Carlson's diatribes instead of looking for unbiased sources of factual news, we are being impacted by the cha