“I was prepared to support the humanity of Black people until I saw someone set a car on fire.”

“I don’t know if I can support slavery abolition because I read someone burned a field of cotton. That’s going too far.”

“I’m not racist, I just find it difficult to distinguish the murdering of a Black person from the breaking of a window. It’s equally violent, right?”

“If you want us to respect you as human beings and equal citizens, you must plead your case before us within these parameters we have identified according to our own comfort level or else we will have no choice but to further brutalize you.”
-white society

“I must witness you patiently endure my violence against you in order for me to possibly feel sympathy toward you. It’s your responsibility to move my heart & mind by allowing me to do that.”

This is the centuries-long dynamic of race in America.

And yet somehow, despite all the various forms of protest, white America is still majority on the side of white supremacy. Again, maybe—just maybe— the issue of enduring racism in America isn’t about the method of protest against it but about the pathology of whiteness.