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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAllies: the time for your silence has expired.
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http://soulascriptura.com/2015/06/allies-the-time-for-your-silence-has-expired/"If you love me and mine, fight for me.
If you cannot, there is now at for us to walk together. "
Please stop asking us (women, POC, LBGT) to ask you more sweetly or frame it better- and get off your ass instead of making excuses.
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Allies: the time for your silence has expired. (Original Post)
bettyellen
Jun 2015
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MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)1. Amen.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)2. My dear friend - a favor for me?
If you'd like to cut and paste a segment.
I'm unable to do this on my phone.
I think that since I got my umpteenth lecture on how to "sell" interest in social justice or "lose allies"
Someone wandered into the AA group and said that. You all need to "woo" Bernie or he should look the other way! :barf:
This feels pretty appropriate.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)3. Done:
Allies, the Time For Your Silence Has Expired
June 18, 2015 Uncategorized
As we reel from the horrific news out of Charleston, SC, in which nine people were killed and others wounded after a gunman opened fire during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, the details were gathering in the aftermath all suggest that this was a hate crime. According to eye-witnesses, the shooter was lobbing accusations and generalizations about Black people and declared that what he was about to do (i.e. kill innocent worshipers) was necessary.
And Black people remain numb.
I wish I could help non-Black folks understand what its like to be inundated with stories and experiences like this. It scars the psyche. You go from anger and indignation to depression and dejection and back and forth and back again until youre inevitably numb. When news of Kalief Browders suicide broke, many of my White friends expressed their anger about it and the system that facilitated it. I told them they could be angry all they wanted. As for me, Im exhausted.
I remember when the news out of Ferguson, MO first came to us. I heard White friends and colleagues encourage each other to sit in a posture of listening. I honor that listening. I honor the desire to be in solidarity through understanding. I honor that they wanted to avoid any semblance of saviorism.
White allies, I thank you for your thoughtfulness in this regard. Now allow me to be your stopwatch; Times up.
http://soulascriptura.com/2015/06/allies-the-time-for-your-silence-has-expired/
June 18, 2015 Uncategorized
As we reel from the horrific news out of Charleston, SC, in which nine people were killed and others wounded after a gunman opened fire during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, the details were gathering in the aftermath all suggest that this was a hate crime. According to eye-witnesses, the shooter was lobbing accusations and generalizations about Black people and declared that what he was about to do (i.e. kill innocent worshipers) was necessary.
And Black people remain numb.
I wish I could help non-Black folks understand what its like to be inundated with stories and experiences like this. It scars the psyche. You go from anger and indignation to depression and dejection and back and forth and back again until youre inevitably numb. When news of Kalief Browders suicide broke, many of my White friends expressed their anger about it and the system that facilitated it. I told them they could be angry all they wanted. As for me, Im exhausted.
I remember when the news out of Ferguson, MO first came to us. I heard White friends and colleagues encourage each other to sit in a posture of listening. I honor that listening. I honor the desire to be in solidarity through understanding. I honor that they wanted to avoid any semblance of saviorism.
White allies, I thank you for your thoughtfulness in this regard. Now allow me to be your stopwatch; Times up.
http://soulascriptura.com/2015/06/allies-the-time-for-your-silence-has-expired/
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)4. Thank you for the assist.
Have you wooed Bernie today?
I'm beating my head against the wall on that one.
JustAnotherGen
(31,834 posts)7. I refuse to 'woo' Bernie
Not gonna do it. Not gonna 'woo' his supporters either.
I'm firm in my belief that
1. A racist murdered 9 black people in an attempt to start a genocide
and
2. Martin O'Malley is who I am supporting in the Primary.
Lilith Rising
(184 posts)5. I'd like to add this bit:
I have a love-hate relationship with that word, ally. I find too often its a self-appellation, and one that is often unearned. We should apply the same rule to it as we do to nicknames. You cant give yourself a nickname; other people give it to you. To give it to yourself comes off as pretentious. Its the same with self-proclaimed allies. I know you mean well, but what about your life demonstrates that you walk in solidarity with others who experience life differently from you because of their skin color, legal status, or sexual orientation? Please dont call yourself my ally if your uncles racist jokes go unchecked in your presence. Please dont call yourself my ally if you say something insensitive, I call you on it, and all you can do is brush it off and say, Girl, but you know I love my Black people! Dont do it.
Exactly!
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)6. Thanks. I realized too late I could not quote it from my phone-
So this is much appreciated.