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Aug 6 6 tweets 1 min read
In the days before Uber, I can’t count the number of times I would be out in Manhattan trying to hail a yellow cab, only for the taxi to drive right by me and pick up a white person standing 10’ past me down the same block. 1/
Not ONCE in all those times did any white person turn down the cab, offer me the cab, or do anything other than literally WATCH the cab pass me and still hop in on their merry way. Never. /2
Did they make the racist decision to not pick me up? Obviously, no. But, they each chose to benefit from their privilege and literally provided the environment in which the racist cabbies could ply their trade without consequence /3
Benefitting from someone else’s racism IS racism. I don’t know how to state it more clearly /4
And, yes, this is a thread inspired by #bb24, because my head is exploding looking at the discourse giving Michael cover for just engaging in “gameplay.”
Last point: seeing first hand that 99.9% of white people won’t cede their privilege for the penny ante stakes of waiting two extra minutes for a cab in light rain, is why EYE know they’re not voluntarily ceding power over anything that really matters /FIN

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