The painful and dangerous message: Only Black Deaths Matter

[loyalsister]

Powerful truths!

"But the power of racism has a strange endurance. This history of refusing to bring down the flag, despite even what happened in Orangeburg, shows that Black deaths alone are not enough to bring change. According to what some politicians and media commentators have implied, knowingly or unknowingly: Only if the murders are caused by someone who had posed for photos of himself surrounded by racist paraphernalia, and only if the deaths are accompanied by acceptable Black love and forgiveness, then it might matter. Then it passes the racist paternalistic standard and tone test. Clearly it has been said without these deaths there never would have been a debate regarding bringing the flag down. And herein lies a painful reality: Only extreme Black deaths will precede mediocre symbolic steps against past and present racism.

http://www.groundswell-mvmt.org/our-nation-is-in-need-of-prophetic-pastoral-counseling-because-it-is-sending-the-message-only-black-deaths-matter/