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Well before the\u00a0Trayvon Martin<\/a>\u00a0verdict, I had seen, heard and read about white people dismissing the racial context of the case. \u00a0Some do this artfully and skillfully; others, not so much. \u00a0I\u2019ve been wanting to explore some of these maneuvers more closely for a while now.<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Some express outrage that the killing of a white person would not have garnered the media attention, and contort that to mean that suddenly black lives are being held up as more important than white ones. \u00a0\u201cUnfair!\u201d they exclaim. \u00a0\u201cI mean, I don\u2019t think a white person\u2019s life has more value than a black person\u2019s life \u2013 why should a black life be more valuable than a white one?\u201d \u00a0They may, in their efforts to support this distortion, hold up stories of individual white people who were killed by black people, and cry, \u201cWhere is the outrage over THIS??? \u00a0Isn\u2019t this just as horrible as Trayvon\u2019s death???\u201d<\/p>\n

To them I would say, yes \u2013 it is as horrible. \u00a0I guarantee there is outrage. \u00a0But chances are pretty good that the black suspect was pursued, caught, charged and convicted, judging from the disproportionate\u00a0representation of blacks in the prison system<\/a>. \u00a0Chances are also good that if the black killer was NOT charged, (already, we\u2019re dealing in less than realistic terms) the white victim\u2019s family wouldn\u2019t have had to take to Change.org to bring attention to the case. \u00a0Given the racially imbalanced media coverage of kidnapping victims, known now as \u201cMissing White Woman Syndrome<\/a>,\u201d I\u2019m kinda doubting a young white murder victim\u2019s family in an affluent community would have to work that hard to garner national attention. \u00a0So, please. \u00a0Don\u2019t claim offense that a particular white person\u2019s death isn\u2019t getting the same media play as Trayvon Martin\u2019s and\u00a0call it a demand for equality,<\/em>\u00a0as if the white population has been oppressed and misrepresented for so long.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Others say, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t people paying attention to black-on-black violence?\u201d \u00a0Actually, they ARE. \u00a0They HAVE been trying. \u00a0On July 29th, the Congressional Black Caucus and other black leaders convened a\u00a0summit in Chicago to address urban violence\u00a0<\/a>there, and elsewhere. \u00a0It was far from the first of its kind. \u00a0Once again, they\u2019re working towards \u2013\u00a0pleading for<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a multi-pronged approach to the inner cities. \u00a0Two of the organizers, Congressman Bobby Rush and Danny K. Davis, exhorted the crowd:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had many summits\u2026now it\u2019s time for wise men and women to stand up and show us how to get out of this mess,\u201d Rush said charging the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no panacea\u201d to fixing Chicago\u2019s violence issue said Davis. \u201cIt\u2019s poverty, school closings, lack of good educational opportunities, lack of jobs, parenting and a need to rebuild infrastructure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rather than sounding the one note song of gun control, here people are doing their best to bring attention and power to the populations systematically wracked by violence (though, of course, sensible gun control figures into the story as a whole.) \u00a0Prominent political African Americans are \u00a0issuing a call to their communities to restore self-respect and reject violence. \u00a0You don\u2019t get any more public and powerful than President Barack Obama, in his incredibly moving press conference after the Zimmerman verdict, saying,<\/p>\n

Now, this isn\u2019t to say that the African American community is na\u00efve about the fact that African American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system; that they\u2019re disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence.\u00a0 It\u2019s not to make excuses for that fact \u2014 although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBlack folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context.\u201d \u00a0So do some white people, but in my opinion, not nearly enough.<\/p>\n

In the entertainment world, we have a brilliant artist of the spoken word, Dahlak, in his piece\u00a0\u201cI Know You Like it Rough.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 It is almost 4 minutes of piercing analysis and profound sadness. \u00a0Equal parts feminist and music critic. \u00a0Equal parts anti-domestic violence and pro-meaningful sex.<\/p>\n

This is the lasting legacy of generation Hip Hop. \u00a0Where calling you \u201cbaby\u201d sounds bitch-like, and calling you \u201cbitch\u201d sounds like baby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is trying to understand why, ladies, \u201cyou don\u2019t feel SMALL when I call you \u2018Lil Mama.'\u201d He is trying to understand why, gentlemen, \u201c[You\u2019re] tryin\u2019 to get to [her] AND that booty \u2013 like it\u2019s two different things.\u201d \u00a0He is mourning the fact that Chris Brown is still making \u201chits.\u201d \u00a0And he\u2019s not just talking about songs.<\/p>\n

On the media front, CNN\u2019s Don Lemon supported Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2019s comments urging the black community to get its act together \u2013 particularly its males. \u00a0It\u2019s understandable (to me, anyhow,) why the message coming from O\u2019Reilly would be dismissed as racist and condescending \u2013 whether or not that was his intention. \u00a0Even from Lemon, though, these sentiments were lambasted by many African-Americans as traitorous (turncoat, slave, other unkind and unfair labels abounded.) \u00a0Lemon answered his critics brilliantly, point-for-point \u2013 particularly Russell Simmons \u2013\u00a0in this commentary of his own<\/a>. \u00a0He pulls the final punch, saying:<\/p>\n

Finally, you write in part, I want the black kids to grow up and be like you. I want them to know that their imagination is God inside of them. Russell, I really appreciate that, but I don\u2019t want black kids or kids of any race to be just like me. I want them to grow up to be better than me. That\u2019s what my parents wanted for me. And their parents wanted for them. And as we approach the 50th anniversary of the march on Washington, we should all realize that it\u2019s what those brave men and women who risked their lives for our freedom and equality wanted for us. They fought for us and generations to come to be better than them, not to be illiterate or deadbeat dads or criminals. We must stop the blame for things that we can change ourselves and, again, as the first African-American president of the United States says, no more excuses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the question, \u00a0\u201cWhy don\u2019t people pay attention black-on-black violence?\u201d the answer is clear. \u00a0Many, many people of MANY stripes are attempting to address it. \u00a0The person who ASKS that question may not be, since if they were, they\u2019d easily learn that it\u2019s the subject of much attention already. \u00a0And it in NO WAY negates the injustice of the forces at play that created the Trayvon Martin situation. \u00a0It is simply a way of changing the subject from Stand-Your-Ground laws and racial profiling to debilitating poverty and substandard education in our inner cities. \u00a0The causes of Martin\u2019s death and the causes of inner-city violence are not necessarily the same, and they\u2019re CERTAINLY not mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Others point to Zimmerman\u2019s ethnicity, claiming that Zimmerman can\u2019t have been acting out of racial motivation \u2013 he\u2019s Hispanic, for God\u2019s sake!\u00a0 To them, I say, OH! \u00a0THAT changes things! \u00a0Because everyone knows there aren\u2019t any racist hispanic people! \u00a0They\u2019re BOTH minorities in this country, so they would NEVER do one another harm! \u00a0People. \u00a0Please. \u00a0It is possible to be a minority\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0racist. \u00a0It is possible to be a female and sexist. \u00a0It\u2019s possible to be gay, and heterophobic.<\/p>\n

Please consider:<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Discrimination and prejudice take many forms and run through every. single. subset. of humanity.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0So do kindness, consideration, intelligence, talent, and bravery.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0It takes a variety of combinations of the qualities in Sentence #2 to combat the injustices that spring from Sentence #1.<\/p>\n

I believe each of us possesses at least\u00a0some<\/em>\u00a0of what it takes to combat that injustice. \u00a0With humility and hope, I offer some practical suggestions on how \u2013 both internally and externally.<\/p>\n

Empathize.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0It is advice as old as time, but really,\u00a0truly<\/em>\u00a0try to put yourself in the victim\u2019s shoes. \u00a0Try<\/em>\u00a0to understand. \u00a0Widen your emotional lens. \u00a0Take in more of a situation\u2019s and person\u2019s context. \u00a0I\u2019m not suggesting every action needs microanalysis \u2013 sometimes a person cuts in front of you in line simply because he or she is a jerk. \u00a0But on issues that can reflect and\/or cause major cultural shifts, like the killing of Trayvon Martin, people of\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0races need to step back and consider the personal and historical context of the uproar.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t change the subject.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Don\u2019t point to equally Pressing Societal Ill B when we\u2019re trying to talk about Pressing Societal Ill A. \u00a0Unless you\u2019re attempting to connect the two and make them BOTH better. \u00a0But certainly don\u2019t point to Pressing Societal Ill B as a way of\u00a0minimizing<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0dismissing<\/em>\u00a0Pressing Societal Ill A.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0Again, President Obama made the point beautifully when he said,<\/p>\n

[Black people] understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Expecting people to live completely unimpacted and uninformed by that history is as unfair and unrealistic as asking people to change the volume of blood they need for their bodies to function. \u00a0To paraphrase the great comedian, Louis CK, it\u2019s not like the Voting Rights Act was passed, and ever since that moment, things have been JUST GREAT! for black people in this country.<\/p>\n

Help.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Making things better can happen with the smallest of gestures. \u00a0If you have the resources and energy to revamp education or make healthy food available and affordable in the inner cities, great, but most of us don\u2019t, and that\u2019s not what I\u2019m going for, anyway. \u00a0Here\u2019s is just one of so many ways to help.<\/p>\n

Think back to when someone made a racist joke in your presence. \u00a0Did you call them on it, or did you laugh nervously in an effort not to rock the boat? \u00a0I\u2019m not suggesting you need to have be confrontational. \u00a0You can simply furrow your eyebrows, shake your head without a word, or say, \u201cDid you really just make that joke?\u201d \u00a0There are infinite variations on that tiny gesture to make the racist (or homophobe, or misogynist, or anti-semite) uncomfortable instead of allowing the racist to make\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em>uncomfortable. \u00a0Do it. \u00a0Make those gestures. \u00a0It matters to both the joke-tellers, and the subjects of the joke.<\/p>\n

Despite the title of this piece, I am speaking to everyone, here. \u00a0I\u2019m not just singling out people who hold the majority of any kind of power in this country. \u00a0I\u2019m speaking to the minorities, too. I believe everyone, of every stripe, can use these guidelines to leave the world a better place than when they found it. \u00a0If a black person calls me racist (as has happened) I have no problem calling them him or her out on it. \u00a0I don\u2019t feel guilty doing it \u2013 on the contrary, I feel it\u2019s my responsibility to do it. \u00a0While I do know better than to say, \u201cSome of my best friends are black!\u201d \u00a0\u2013 I will say something like, \u201cYou must not know me \u2013 that\u2019s completely unfair,\u201d and leave it at that.<\/p>\n

To those minorities who might answer with a mocking (but justified) \u201cOh, so you don\u2019t like being racially profiled?\u201d \u00a0I would say, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t. \u00a0And I wish you would see that for the olive branch that it is, rather than the complaint it is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

To those minorities who might answer further, with \u201cI have been burned waaaaaay too many times to accept that olive branch. \u00a0It has been pounded into my psyche to be skeptical of that olive branch. \u00a0People who look like you have extended\u00a0molotov cocktails<\/em>\u00a0disguised as olive branches to people who look like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that I would answer, \u201cThat is completely true and a fair reaction. \u00a0But that will not keep me from extending the olive branch,\u201d and leave it at that \u2013 for them to accept or reject based on their instincts or their knowledge after having gotten to know me.<\/p>\n

Further, if asked \u2013 and\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0if asked, I would point to myriad substantive ways I walk the walk when it comes to combating prejudice in my small corner of the world. \u00a0However \u2013 and this is BIG however \u2013 I\u00a0understand<\/em>\u00a0why minorities might assume what they assume of me. \u00a0Through no fault of my own, I was born white in a country whose racial history is horrific. \u00a0I am not personally responsible for the scourge of racism, or the plight of inner-city black youth, proliferation of guns, or racial profiling. \u00a0I do, however, consider it a personal\u00a0responsibility<\/em>\u00a0to follow my conscience in trying to erase that scourge. \u00a0Trying to improve that plight. \u00a0Removing at least a layer of the barrier between the races from the psyches of my kids \u2013 one of whom, for as long as he can remember, lives in a country led by a black president.<\/p>\n

Taking the macro-view, let\u2019s please think back to how (then) Africans came to be in this country. \u00a0Shackled, forced from their homes, shoved into a harrowing journey whereupon their arrival here, they were enslaved and families torn apart \u2013 sold to other whites as property. \u00a0I\u2019m a member of a race many of whose members have resisted \u2013 sometimes to the death \u2013 giving another race the tools it needs to live up to its potential. \u00a0I\u2019m a member of a race that systematically denies another race any semblance of family and security, means of education, sense of safety, and simultaneously, reprimands said race for hot having a solid family structure or finishing high school. \u00a0When will more of us \u2013\u00a0enough<\/em>\u00a0of us \u2013 see race relations in this country for what they are and have been? \u00a0When will we realize the folly and cruelty in cutting off a person\u2019s hands, and then \u00a0punishing him for not being able to play the piano?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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