It’s the race thing

How can we know, as a white person, what goes through the mind of a black man after a police killing of another unarmed black man? The answer is we can’t. There is no way we can appreciate the combination of sorrow (for it may have been a relative), anger (for it will probably go unpunished), fear (for it might be me next time) and frustration (for we know such things will continue to occur and no one is doing a damn thing about it!). Will we ever be able to say: “there, but for the grace of God and the color of my skin, go I”. And will our collective attitudes change, somewhat, toward people in the Black Lives Matter movement? And when someone responds with “All Lives Matter”, can we remind them that “all lives” are not being systematically snuffed out by cops with guns?

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