“This is the reality of black girls: One day you’re called an icon, the next day, a threat.” Amanda Gorman
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Another awful example of systemic racism in this country. If she had been a white female, this would not have occurred. Instead, skin color led a security guard to believe that Amanda was up to something nefarious rather than simply being a human on her way home. It’s maddening.
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It is and it seems never-ending.
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Laura, now there is a exemplar of being an African-American woman. If she was a male, she may have been face-planted, searched and arrested. Keith
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There are so many ways Black and brown bodies are violated daily; it’s hard to process. As a woman I feel like I’m constantly on alert but I honestly don’t know how I’d manage living with this level of vigilance.
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Laura, your point is well taken. Any woman has to be vigilant, but a Black woman must be even more so. Yet, what I do not have to face as a White man is what Black men must face. That every move in front of a law enforcement officer might be your last. That you are suspect for being dark-skinned at the wrong place. And, today Asian-Americans are endangered with the eight shootings in Atlanta, building off the hate that has perc;olated since the former president needed a scape goat for his inability to call COVID a threat. Keith
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All true. I always appreciate meeting people whose eyes are opened to how different we all are when it comes to base threat level.
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Laura, my guess is every woman has at least one story of sexual assault or misconduct in some way, regardless of her color. We highlight what happens by Weinstein, Cosby, Trump, Clinton, Ailes, O’Reilly, etc. of the world, but it happens everyday in the most common of employers. Right now McDonald’s is under fire for not training its managers and franchise owners, but frankly any retail store in a small town is run as a fiefdom by the store manager, whose altruism is not guaranteed. Women too often have to acquiesce to the whims of the scheduler of hours. Keith
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So true and awful
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it is
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So sad 🙁
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It was a sad reminder that on the street it doesn’t matter who you are, your skin color is the first thing seen.
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How much easier would it have been for the security guard to just say “good evening” and see how it goes. People generally acknowledge polite conversation and she would probably add something like “it’s been a long day, it feels good to get home.,” and then his mission is accomplished. Some people say “he’s only doing his job” but he’s not, at least he’s not doing it very well. There’s no reason to begin with confrontation.
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Exactly. He could have at the very least been courteous. THAT’S what doing your job is about.
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Absolutely. It’s the immediate escalation that is far too common.
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Things need to change.
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She really did put this perfectly.
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Indeed. It should be an eye opener.
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