Can a nation conceived in violence, dedicated to the proposition that straight white men have a god-granted right to the land, labor, and lives of every other type of person, redeem itself? Today, even more than most days, I am not sure that it can.
One thing I know for sure is that we will never be better if our conversations about bias continue to be centered on intent rather than impact. It doesn’t matter if a white man says he wasn’t racist or phobic or whatever. It matters that he felt entitled to end peoples’ lives.
It matters that Asian people are being killed in this country, that sex workers are being killed in this country, that trans people are being killed in this country, that Black people are being killed in this country. That’s the impact. That’s who I want to read about in the news
We’ll never have equality in this country if our entire conversation around bigotry is “did you use a slur?”
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