Thread by @CarmineSabia

Thread:

Twitter is a tough place to say everything you are thinking at one time. But I'm going to make an effort here in this thread to address white supremacist ideology.

First and most important. #FuckWhiteSupremacy and anyone associated with it. 1/

We can point to, and I have, examples of POC harming or murdering white, or Asian people because of hate. But the truth is as white people we have not had the experience of being in a state of consistent threat our entire lives. 2/

And that is OK. It does not make us bad people. It means that has not been our experience. But because of that we sometimes, and I include myself in all of this, dismiss other people's experiences because we do not see them. 3/

It is true that right now is the best time in history to be black in America, but that is only because the past was so damn abhorrent. There may be some POC who hate us because we are white and they may say bigoted things, but here is a major difference. 4/

There is a network of white supremacists who actively want to eliminate POC. They want to murder our fellow Americans, our fellow humans, our fellow children of God because of the pigmentation of their skin. 5/

What can we do? Listen, there is a place for the lawmakers and authorities to make everyone safer, including POC. But what we can do, as average citizens, is say in a loud, united voice that we denounce white supremacy and ostracize white supremacists. 6/

We must let it be known that they are not welcome as Republicans, Democrats or independents. And we must stop using race as a political weapon. That means both parties. 7/

Do not tell me it does not exist. In the past decade alone:

Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting.
Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting.
Charleston church shooting.
Charlottesville.
Jeffersontown.
Pittsburgh synagogue.
El Paso shooting.
Buffalo massacre.

56 total dead.

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Sadly this will be used as a weapon against Donald Trump, Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and anyone the left wants to target. The right will defend itself and guess what, everything stays the same. It does not have to be this way. 9/

We can unite. We can stand together and denounce this evil and do better to watch our words because some wacko could misinterpret what we said and use it to harm others. It is what we should do, but will we?