Wondering how to talk about white privilege to your friends and family during the Black Lives Matter Movement?
Here are three ways to start.
Using personal anecdotes, Hutcherson outlined some of the many shapes white privilege can take in American society.
Which is to say, if you are whiteperiodyou have white privilege.
Many of those pro-Trump rioters probably dispute the idea of white privilege,writes Nicholas Kristoffor theNew York Times.
I get that black people are angry, but why do the protests have to resort to property destruction?
Co-founder of From Privilege to Progress
All we are asking is for police to stop killing us innocently, and this is what happens.
They would rather meet us with violence than just agree to stop killing us.
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No one usedrubber bullets or tear gason them.
No one openly questioned why they werent protesting peacefully.
Or would you fight?
Police who shoot black people are just bad applesWe cant blame the entire police force.
If we have so many good cops, why arent these cops stopping the bad ones?
But right now, theres a question of how effective these programs are.
Co-founder of From Privilege to Progress
In 2019, CBS News asked 155 police departments nationwide about their bias-training procedures.
That oversight, in and of itself, speaks to a system built on white privilege.
Trainings that may or may not work arent a solutiontheyre a smokescreen.
But the second part of this adage is being ignored.
The full saying goes: One bad applespoils the whole bunch.
I believe that black lives matter, but I dont want to actively speak out about it.
Saahenes response: Well, then you dont believe in the cause.
You should just be honest and say, It doesnt matter that much to me.
You have to back it up with action.
Originally published June 8, 2020; updated January 6, 2021.
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