I want to understand…
No, I don’t want to understand what it’s like to fear being murdered by police, hunted by white supremacists, and being the recipient of all these hate crimes. I don’t want to understand what it’s like to find out your precious child has been murdered or “suicided.”
NOBODY should have to ever understand that. Nobody.
I want to understand how the racists think… How they justify horrific acts against humanity. How they feel righteous in doing so. And why they spend so much of their resources to manipulate and control information. Why they start riots and looting to blame on black people. Why they manipulate the media to propagate these old biases Why they control the laws to make it ok to steal a vast majority of money in comparison to pretty theft that carries heavier charges.
Why do they want the system to be so heavily weighed against minorities?
Why do they want to profit from killing and incarcerating so many people of color in the name of “law and order?”
Is this based on religious righteousness? What is the benefit racists get from controlling this system and manipulating good people to think they’re doing right?
I want to understand.
So I can see exactly how they define their reality.
Because then, and only then, can anybody speak to them–by speaking into their map of reality.
That’s what I want–to speak into their map of the world.
And I will give them an offer:
Give your darkness to me. Help me understand so that I may take this darkness from you.
I will give you my light. All of it. Every last bit. Just give me your darkness.
Because nothing’s gonna change if you do nothing.
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