About #BubbaWallace
I'm deeply frustrated.
Why?
Because it won't matter how rational of a mistake this might have been and that Bubba had no knowledge.
It won't matter that people earnestly, and rightly, displayed empathy and solidarity. (thread: 1/5)
I'm deeply frustrated.
Why?
Because it won't matter how rational of a mistake this might have been and that Bubba had no knowledge.
It won't matter that people earnestly, and rightly, displayed empathy and solidarity. (thread: 1/5)
What will matter in the eyes of those who were straddling the fence and just got the courage to teeter in the direction of recognizing the realities of systemic racism, or to some of the folks who decided to start taking real action, is... (2/5)
this incident will callback to the 100+ year-old fallacy of "Black folks exaggerate the impact of racism; things aren't that bad."
For us, living as the villain in a bigoted system is to be conditioned that the excessive downs and few ups we experience are normal. (3/5)
For us, living as the villain in a bigoted system is to be conditioned that the excessive downs and few ups we experience are normal. (3/5)
We quickly become desensitized and jaded to and by these unfortunate norms (this is called racial battle fatigue)--we quickly become resilient (this is called racial stamina).
Experiencing these excessive downs and few ups without this conditioning... (4/5)
Experiencing these excessive downs and few ups without this conditioning... (4/5)
...would be overwhelming at best, and some of the new support gained lacks the racial stamina to carry on.
Call me cynical, but I've seen enough to be warranted in my cynicism.
And I hope my cynicism is its own fallacy. (5/5)
Call me cynical, but I've seen enough to be warranted in my cynicism.
And I hope my cynicism is its own fallacy. (5/5)
