Re-upping, relevant to Trump’s #COVID19 posturing today.
"This sense of entitled safety, even invulnerability, runs silent and deep in white America.”
This attitude, cultivated in the soil of white supremacy, is a threat to public health. 1/3 #WhiteTooLong sojo.net/articles/white…
White supremacy has historically done much to protect white Americans' interests and lives at the expense of others. But the sense of invulnerability that it has inspired is a delusion, produced by generations of injustice. 2/3
Today, the legacy of white supremacy is leaving many white Americans unable to see the imminent threat of a virus that is oblivious to their expectations of safety and unable to act in ways that will protect not just themselves but the country. 3/3 smile.amazon.com/White-Too-Long…
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