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so you know how there& #39;s still protests happening, but you basically don& #39;t see them on any news network at all and only minimally covered in print media, if at all? this is what happens for the *vast* majority of organizing out there, esp if it& #39;s community based.
and by community based, i mean, if there& #39;s no national & #39;the president called them antifa thugs and now there& #39;s a showdown about to happen!& #39; media swirling around it.
so. like a group of moms that have lost their kids to gun violence, for example-who are meeting over coffee and talking for a few months, and then they eventually decide to get a speaker into a school classroom to talk w/kids abt how to stay away from gangs.
that will not *ever* get any press. none. not until it hits mass national & #39;reaching out to schools across the nation, soon to be world& #39; type of level.
so if huge protests that are bringing in thousands of people and have national and even international relevance can& #39;t get headlines and local mom group will *never* get any type of media at all--
do you think that might explain why you& #39;ve never heard of black people organizing in their own communities to stop gun violence and intercommunity violence?
it& #39;s essential for particular folks to recognize that when you have segregated yourself away from the real world, you not hearing about something doesn& #39;t mean it& #39;s not happening. it means that you have adopted the ignorance that is inherent part of segregated communities.
or, as james baldwin points out: "You never had to look at me. I had to look at you. I know more about you than you know about me."
