From Melody Nixon in Apogee Journal: "If I say we have already forgotten about Trayvon Martin, to whom does the ‘we’ refer? The ‘we’ in this case assumes privilege. The ‘we’ refers to being able to forget. The ‘we’ refers to those of us who can afford to forget about him, because there is no real, daily threat of physical violence against our bodies because of the way we look. ‘We,’ meaning ‘I,’ don’t have to worry about my own brothers being targeted and shot — by police or ordinary, everyday citizens with too much power and too little awareness — for their appearance, because there is no ongoing, mutating struggle for power over my own brothers’ skin. Because I’m a person, I do worry about my friends. I worry about my friends’ brothers, and their families. I don’t feel guilty, I feel angry, and worried. I feel responsible. We are." apogeejournal.org/2013/09/30/not-just-guilty-a-white-response-to-the-george-zimmerman-case/
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 03:33:11 +0000
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