And that's very difficult as a mother to swallow, to understand that I can't protect him under certain circumstances from people who don't consider us human." I can tell my child not to wear a hoodie all I want.
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I look at my son and I see countless etc etc etc etc boys who were out living, existing, who are treated as a threat. I look at my son and I see Trayvon Martin. But I want you to know that I'm your friend and I see you and I hear you.' I am paying attention to friends that aren't doing that." I'll admit that I've ignored some of the issues that you face as a black person. 'How are you doing during this time? I'll admit that I've been silent. But at the bare minimum, a friend would reach out to another friend. "I'm not even necessarily saying that I need you to post. "I'm not saying that you have to speak out and have this, you know, this whole spiel about black lives matter," she told CBS News. And she believes that, in the digital age, it is the duty of public figures to speak out. Rachel Lindsay, who famously broke barriers as the first black Bachelorette, said she is taking note of which white friends and public figures have gone silent.
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You wouldn't walk up to someone who has experience as a breast cancer survivor or someone who's lost someone from breast cancer, and say, 'How dare you talk about breast cancer? Why not talk about colon cancer? How dare you exclude other cancers?'" No one would ever go to a breast cancer walk and criticize them for talking about breast cancer. "It doesn't allow us to express our very specific pain. "It's a very painful kind of silence because it removes our voice," she said. or what you're eating for dinner, and yet you're telling me that you're afraid to say something because you might hurt other people's feelings? Or you don't know what to say? Or you don't have an audience to reach? Were you thinking those things when you posted the other photos? I don't think you were." "And you're telling me that you have no hesitation posting a selfie of yourself. "It's incredibly hurtful," said Broadway star Jelani Alladin. Black people across the country have taken to the streets and to their social media feeds to plead through protest that "black lives matter" and "enough is enough." But amidst all the noise and all the hashtags, many say there is nothing quite as deafening as "white silence."īecause for all the people who have flooded social media with George Floyd's name, Ahmaud Arbery's image and countless heartbreaking personal anecdotes of racism in action, there are just as many – and possibly even more – who have borne witness to the pain in black communities and chosen to say nothing.