I was sitting at a birthday dinner with my in-laws yesterday as we talked about recent global, national, & local news, unable to do anything but laugh at the darkness of what we were talking about.
There are the high-level horrors & then there are the local businesses closing up. And they are related. And it's just like, I almost wish the problems here weren't so clear & obvious.
We can sit around a kitchen table & point out the absurdity. We can connect the dots easily enough.
But I try to make a point that middle class white folks may be having those conversations now, but they are echoing experiences & conversations more marginalized folks already have.
It's strange. The world feels so hostile now, but it's a hostility that has been growing & compiling for so long.
Which of course is why white people are not going to find liberation unless we can listen to & learn (with humility!) from marginalized people who have been in this fight.
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