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so you know how there's still protests happening, but you basically don'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's community based.
and by community based, i mean, if there's no national 'the president called them antifa thugs and now there's a showdown about to happen!' 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 'reaching out to schools across the nation, soon to be world' type of level.
so if huge protests that are bringing in thousands of people and have national and even international relevance can't get headlines and local mom group will *never* get any type of media at all--
do you think that might explain why you've never heard of black people organizing in their own communities to stop gun violence and intercommunity violence?
it's essential for particular folks to recognize that when you have segregated yourself away from the real world, you not hearing about something doesn't mean it'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."
