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Do White People Understand White Privilege?
Or do they even care?
I’ve been dipping in and out of the “Trial of the Year,” starring a white supremacist who has the unearned privilege of being able to defend his indefensible actions. Derek Chauvin is a white male who was trained to become a cold-blooded killer when dealing with Black lives that don’t matter, and that informed his callousness on the day George Floyd senselessly lost his life.
Against my better judgment, I succumbed to the temptation and watched the graphicness of a dying Black man breathlessly pleading to BREATHE, as his white murderer dug his knee deeper into the veins of his Black victim’s neck, with his white hands in his dirty pocket, accompanied by that devilish smirk.
Hearing the acute fright in George Floyd’s voice as he groaned through physical agony, as he tried to warn his killer that he was slowly and painfully losing consciousness made me wish for a miracle that I knew would never come because we know how this horror story ends.
I’ve had to tune off to preserve my mental health, which in all honesty doesn’t work well because either way, the nagging questions continue to torture with or without television.
