Enough is Enough: Black Lives Matter
We don’t want to talk about it. We have successfully tucked away our collective knowledge of how things were in the past. We feel that things have changed. We think that all people have equal opportunity and therefore the past is no longer relevant. We tell ourselves that it’s not good to divide people by race. We think that the civil rights leaders fought hard to be seen as equal and that we should all strive to be colorblind. Now that so much progress has been made, why would the Black Lives Matter movement be asking us to throw the concept of color blindness out the window? We are white and we work hard, so terms like “white privilege” put us on the defensive. We struggle to provide for our families and we have to watch every penny to make ends meet. Life is difficult and challenging for us, so where is this white privilege? We tell ourselves that we know that some people are born in to privilege, but simply the color of our skin does not give us any easy routes to ...