Tuesday, November 25, 2014

What the fuck and just what the fuck?
The world continues to make me sick and I'm an entitled-by-birth middle class white woman and if I feel this way, how do the mothers of Black sons feel and I'll never know but I can know that it's not right and I've never understood racism and I never will and we humans are fucked up and there is no justice and if you're a white person who thinks for one second that you can understand any of the rage and fear and frustration and sadness and grief then you don't know shit and neither do I.

It's still raining here and it feels like it will rain forever and there is not enough rain ever anywhere to put out the fire of the pain of injustice in the belly, in the land, in the heart, in the streets, in the muscles of the throat that stretches to scream and I'm sorry.


12 comments:

  1. All I can say is that I agree with every word here.

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  2. it is sickening what is done in this country while white americans strut around claiming this to be the best country in the world. I expected no less from the grand jury. racist sociopathic cops are protected from ever having to pay for their crimes.

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  3. I just can't imagine, I worry enough about my white son. Gail

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  4. Very sad. I am not surprised though at the GJ decision. Having lived in the South all my life, I know that racism is alive and well. And so many think that it was a justified "neutralization" of a thug. WTF? I had hoped that we would not ever return to the racial tension of the 60's but I can see that we are already there.

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  5. I was thinking about the book/movie, "The Giver" and how they had created a world without colour. As sad is this would be I know that people would still find a reason to hate and feel superiour.

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  6. Don't apologise. You're screaming for us all. Atrocity.

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  7. My hometown is twenty minutes from the city of which you speak. I don't want to start anything, but all is not how the media presents it.

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  8. Yep. Yep. Yep. And however "the media is presenting it," some of us have friends whose lives embody it -- how they must talk to their sons, how they lead their own lives, the burdens they carry.

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  9. You, dear Mary, are part of what is good and right in this country. You've raised four good snd thoughtful children and are sowing more love in your grandsons and this will help change the world. I do believe that.

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