"I Am Not Trayvon Martin" - powerful message from a 'middle class white girl'

[johnlucas]

9. Wow. This girl is BADASS!

I have to say as a Black man that I am impressed.
I know all Whites aren't racist but I DO think that most Whites are naïve about the reality of this system we live in.
That many of them are in a bubble. It's part of the social programming, what can you expect?

It happens to any favored group in a system.
I'm a tall man so I'm in a bubble when it comes to short men's issues.
I'm a man so I'm in a bubble when it comes to women's issues.

Favorite children are in a bubble when it comes to the feelings of unfavored children.
Social butterflies are in a bubble when it comes to the feelings of wallflowers.
Kids from the safe suburbs are in a bubble when it comes to the feelings of kids who live in perpetual war zones.
People in rich "first world" countries are in a bubble when it comes to the feelings of people from poor "third world" countries.
So much in a bubble that they use those terms I quoted WITHOUT quotes as if they were truth.
So much in a bubble that they don't even question the legitimacy of those terms in the first place.

Human beings just don't naturally know to step outside of their own skin & reflect on themselves & their conditionings.
It's hard to REALLY see things from someone else's point of view. To walk in another's moccasins.
It takes consistent practice & exercise just to be able to come to a viewpoint that this girl came up with.

She's addressing the system itself. She's getting at the ROOT of the problem not just trimming the branches.
She's busting into the configuration files & looking to excise these bad programs.

Honestly I don't expect many Whites to come to the conclusions she did. I'm happy that Whites even begin to understand a trace of the reality non-Whites live in.
To me that's progress considering how thick the bubble is.
So for her to offer this point of view is impressive.
John Lucas