Meanwhile… 019
I’m white. I will NEVER know the full extent of how frustrating, frightening and unfair it is to live in this world that’s been founded on cruelty and oppression and still runs on that fuel to this day – all to keep the wealthy continuously comfortable. That’s the simplest reason behind it aside from the blatant racism that goes hand in hand with that selfish social construct that we all abide by, willingly or not. Consciously or not. Also conscientiously or not.
In being white, I am PRIVILEGED. Day in, day out, from the cradle to the grave.
I really struggled with this instalment of this series. At the tail end of the previous one about Spoon Theory, I stared so many times at an empty panel, and just as many times I tried to fill it.
Nothing fit. I drew several things and each one was broken, despairing, sad. At the same time, however, I knew I didn’t have it in myself to draw anything that was trite, trivial or amusing. To do so would have been disingenuous, because – as I’ve tried to make clear in this instalment – while it’s not my place to speak FOR Black Lives, as a person of privilege, I feel it’s my duty to say at least something. We all need to. But the best thing to do now, along with standing with Black Lives, is to listen to them.
Show your support in any way you can. If you can donate to the grassroots causes, the ones that are doing the hard work, do so. If you can attend the protests, do so. If all you have it within yourself is to put word out to as many as you can, do so.
The more that do, the more that’s done.
Good people outnumber the bad.
Share their stories and their voices.
Always. Today. Tomorrow.
For as long as they’re being murdered.
Because being murdered they are.
Make racists afraid again.
Especially the ones that are unfairly elected.
Because they profit from those deaths and do so knowingly.
And they’re terrified of you when you’re not alone.
They’re terrified of us all when we’re united.
I’m not sure what else to say. Go find those people. Listen to their voices.
Listen when they tell you what you can do to help change things.