Hey white people (like me) - wake up

Note to myself (and maybe you too) :
            First, I am sorry. Also ashamed, appalled, again. And it’s too easy for people like me to turn away from the horrors of racial oppression, the insidious and the blatant, too easy to turn it off, go back to recipes and Jeopardy and feeling cooped up at home. But it’s our duty, if we value all that’s right and good, to read, to learn, to face the difficult, painful, eye-opening reality of our nation’s failures, our own failures. Read, watch, learn. The links below are a start. It’s all real and all important.
            You ARE part of this atrocity. Yes. It hurts.
            You CAN help to change it.
            Wake up. Pay attention. Listen. Care.
 
(emotional, brilliant contemplations by Trevor Noah)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c&feature=youtu.be&list=PLeskMkEaHJYdaYLD69iNAadg3klIHZBW5&fbclid=IwAR0x7rpNKt9J8qiHLUwE0zwvpv0nd-C0v0d5GMfSo_YdCsFfd9Ss9y2uXnc
 
(how would you feel if…?)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10163796969735220&set=a.10150762667725220&type=3
 
https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/burning-tulsa-the-legacy-of-black-dispossession/?fbclid=IwAR2e9LkyCYiA_3OVLQBHINWo2zLLjN6L6OLv3jTVaX2rCTarExOCd1t5q1g
 
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/29/nation/its-bigger-than-buildings-american-is-burning/?event=event25&fbclid=IwAR2R17jFNN5VL0F5aE4j3amJLQ8-0lRqBsT5qk_pZmI97Yg_yGLtla40aB0
 
(please, look at these human beings)
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4042822269091984&set=a.125066544200929
 
My 60th year in 60,000 words
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