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.
Do white people understand the meaning of white privilege?
Do you truly appreciate how your privilege has zero to do with the robustness of financial assets or impressive value of properties, and everything to do with how white bodies have never been historically violated by the inhumanness that continues to devalue the worth of Black bodies with consistent threats to our survivability?
Breonna Taylor’s killers will most likely never pay the appropriate price for her murder in the middle of the night, as she slept in her own apartment. She was the victim of a home invasion that was coordinated by rogue cops who had the main objective of guaranteeing that none of the occupants would make it out alive.
The actual trial of Derek Chauvin is beyond offensive, based on the fact that he literally committed his crime in broad daylight for bystanders to film and upload for the curious viewing of anyone, who dares to submit to the real-life dramatization of what police brutality looks like —…
