Dear White America, Let’s Talk About Violence

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You watch movies that glorify war, torture, and violence like Zero Dark Thirty or The American Sniper — yet violence is not the answer, right?You saw armed men storming government buildings with guns, ready to snap at any time — yet violence is not the answer, right?You are fucking obsessed with the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms — yet violence is not the answer, right?Now, do you see your own hypocrisy?Violence is in the American DNA. This country was built on violence, looting, genocide — now you are saying that violence is not the answer?The reality is that you been silent for so long. You were silent when Mike Brown had his hands up. When Eric Garner couldn’t breathe, Trayvon Martin was walking with a hoodie on, Botham Jean was

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shot in his own apartment, Ahmaud Arbery minded his own business jogging when yet another black man George Floyd — could not breathe.You would still remain silent if people of color did not say ‘ENOUGH!” and took out their pain, frustration, fear in the only language white Americans can understand — violence.Before you condemn another act of a burned police station, or the shutting of a highway or the looting of a target — please stop, read, reflect on our own history. Get down of your white privilege horse and ask yourself, “what we as a nation done to drive people to the point of violence?’Stop saying, “I am angry because of people stealing” — instead start listening to the people who are hurting, the people who are afraid they will be the next hashtag.</article></body>

Dear White America, Let’s Talk About Violence

Dear White America

“Violence is not the answer” — Before you go on repeating this as a mindless machine — STOP!

Every year on July 4th — you are celebrating an act of violence — yet violence is not the answer, right?

When you support the U.S. military — You are supporting an organization whose whole purpose is to resolve issues through violence — yet violence is not the answer, right?

You watch movies that glorify war, torture, and violence like Zero Dark Thirty or The American Sniper — yet violence is not the answer, right?

You saw armed men storming government buildings with guns, ready to snap at any time — yet violence is not the answer, right?

You are fucking obsessed with the 2nd amendment and the right to bear arms — yet violence is not the answer, right?

Now, do you see your own hypocrisy?

Violence is in the American DNA. This country was built on violence, looting, genocide — now you are saying that violence is not the answer?

The reality is that you been silent for so long. You were silent when Mike Brown had his hands up. When Eric Garner couldn’t breathe, Trayvon Martin was walking with a hoodie on, Botham Jean was shot in his own apartment, Ahmaud Arbery minded his own business jogging when yet another black man George Floyd — could not breathe.

You would still remain silent if people of color did not say ‘ENOUGH!” and took out their pain, frustration, fear in the only language white Americans can understand — violence.

Before you condemn another act of a burned police station, or the shutting of a highway or the looting of a target — please stop, read, reflect on our own history. Get down of your white privilege horse and ask yourself, “what we as a nation done to drive people to the point of violence?’

Stop saying, “I am angry because of people stealing” — instead start listening to the people who are hurting, the people who are afraid they will be the next hashtag.