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No Apologies: On The Killing of Trayvon Martin and Being 'Good'
The cops say maybe Trayvon would have done something “differently” if he could do it over again.
Do what? Not be born black in America where black men are viewed with suspicion no matter their age?
People, and by people I mostly mean our society as a whole, tells us that if we just do the right things and follow the rules we will be safe and our kids will be safe. But these things are lies. The onus is not on the victim to wear a longer skirt when she goes out on night. It’s on the guy who thinks it’s OK to rape her.
The impetus is not on the kid walking home from the 7-11. But on the self-proclaimed, gun-wielding, one-man-neighborhood watch, calling the Sanford Police more than 40 times in the last year. It is not Trayvon’s job, or your job or my job to make bigots feel more comfortable with us because there is no way to get their comfort. It is a lie.
No amount of goodness will fix it.
*Sobs.*
(Source: shakespearessister.blogspot.com)
Genderqueer with a touch of happy humanism.
