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America Has a White Man Indulgence and It’s Killing Us

Ezinne Ukoha
4 min readJun 9, 2016

Brock Turner is everywhere. His eerily placid face with the eyes that have no focus — plasters my timeline infinitely.

He’s stalking me and doesn’t even know it.

The media stalks the white boy who is a celebrity rapist and this sonofabitch is now my goddamn problem.

How does that happen?

It happens because America loves the concept of white boys breaking the law and winning.

It’s a sport that has been instituted since black men were stripped of their rights and forced to prove time and time again that they deserve to live.

Black boys have been gunned down in cold blood for being too black and too human.

Yet, rich white boys can sexually assault an innocent victim and be cuddled by the press, rewarded by the judicial system and protected by the first amendment.

White men have it made. I really hate white guys sometimes. I won’t lie.

As I walk past the space tech company — SpaceX every morning — I see my fair share— fashionably dressed down — with their unruly hair fashionably blowing in the wind. They are the shit.

You guys can work wherever you want and do whatever. You write listicles about what it takes to rule the world…

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