...not walking by statues, school names, and monuments
built to honor those who wanted your ancestors enslaved, tortured into submission, or dead
on a daily basis
pretending not to notice
until you don't notice.
...is not having to train your face
to not to respond even if something makes you re-notice
a statue meant to honor someone that would revel at the very thought of the thought of your soul's destruction
....is telling a black or brown friend that you think confederate statues are no big deal and "just a piece of history" and feeling victorious when they silently nod or even agree with you because they're too deep in their denial to be honest.
...is not even hearing the bricks you're stacking, forming a wall between yourself and the rest of the non-white world because "I have a black friend."
History, good and bad, goes in books and museum. And when the evil are mentioned in books and museums their deeds are spelled out so that nobody mistakes them for a hero.
As Takiyah Thompson said, we need to smash the symbols that give white supremacists power.
Those confederate statues need to be destroyed as do the confederate names on schools --where white supremacy is often taught in the classroom whether or not that school has a confederate zero's name on it.
That HBO series that wants the same white writers who have already made shabby use o brown people in GAME OF THRONES needs to be scrapped because they've already provided enough ambient white supremacy for Alt-Right Nazi's to thrive.
I wouldn't be surprised if GAME OF THRONES has just enough imagery presented in just the right way that it can be twisted into a white supremacists wet dream.
#NoConfederate
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