Not Supporting a Candidate When You are Black

[Number23]

35. I am DAMN GLAD that you, your sister and the rest of your beautiful family were "enablers"

How DARE anyone condemn you for actually standing by your brother! What the FUCK??! Was the judge expecting you guys to just abandon him, even though you knew with everything in you that he was being railroaded and was innocent??! What the hell is wrong with people??!

I am so glad that the nightmare is over. Girl, I bet your mother cannot be happier. I have thought about you all so much and when you sent me that note that he had been freed I practically leapt out of my seat.

This is why the old "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" crap has no weight in many minority communities, just like the "it's not race, it's class" axiom. We know damn well our cousins and fathers and aunts could have five PhD's and a net worth of $50 million and it means NOTHING to the racist, the clueless and the bigoted. Look at all the posts in this forum about people using technology to racially profile and spy on their own neighbors for no other reason than they are black or brown. Even when we are IN OUR HOMES, we ain't home. Not when people are convinced that our innate inferiority automatically means that everything we've achieved or accomplished must have been done through ill gotten means and we need to be constantly "monitored" as a result. Even when in our own neighborhoods, in our own homes, we are suspicious and "intruders."

And you're right. BLM has brought so much attention to this one aspect of black life in America. And I am damn grateful for them. I bow my head in respect for Mr. Gay too. RIP brother and hopefully his horrible death will shine a light so that other brothers and sisters can get something resembling justice as well.