Ta-Nehisi Coates:
… Here is the machinery of racism—the privilege of being oblivious to questions, of never having to grapple with the everywhere; the right of false naming; the right to claim that the lakes, trees, and mountains of our world do not exist; the right to insult our intelligence with your ignorance. The machinery of racism requires no bigotry from Dylan Byers. It merely requires that Dylan Byers sit still.
We suffer for this. So many people charged with informing us, with informing themselves, are just sitting still.
When we fancy ourselves as superior, we strip ourselves of our humanity.
I mean, the day that a mere existence bothers me, i’ll go find a psychiatrist.
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