Before the investigations were complete, before all the evidence was in, before due process had run its course, white America somehow took the sides of…
The white cop who murdered George Floyd.
The white cop who murdered Botham Jean.
The white cop who murdered Atatiana Jefferson.
The white cops who killed Breonna Taylor.
The white man who killed Jordan Neely.
The white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery.
The white cop who murdered Laquan McDonald.
Susan Smith, who murdered her own children and blamed it on a Black man.
Charles Stuart, who murdered his wife and blamed it on a Black man.
The white friends of Nolan Wells.
Again and again, whiteness gets the presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, the sympathetic explanation, and the rush to defend.
But Black people asking questions, demanding answers, and efusing to accept a convenient narrative before the facts are known, are…“MAKING EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE.”
The caucasity is breathtaking.
You don’t get to make race matter when defending whiteness and then demand that Black people pretend race doesn’t exist when we demand accountability.
Talbert Swan
