From high school on in a town of little diversity, my friends were white & most the women I talked to were white.
But I can't get the images out of my head of many of these white people chanting "Send them back," about Haitian migrants, black people they imagined eating pets.
& they terrorized them
But I can't get the images out of my head of many of these white people chanting "Send them back," about Haitian migrants, black people they imagined eating pets.
& they terrorized them
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My Facebook timeline was flooded with images of black people with kittens and puppies, and the posts and comments were all about how the black people are stealing these animals to eat.
If I took a picture w/ a cat or a dog, I wouldn't look any different than the black people in those images.
Any black person could be accused of eating pets bc that was what they wanted.
After over a decade living and working and serving clients in predominantly white spaces, I had to leave.
I'm a trusting guy. I never had fear of the other. I embraced the other.
But this fear. It shakes me. It makes me nauseous.
I'd tell them that times have changed.
I'd even argue with them and say they were stuck in the past.
But now I get their skepticism and why time and progress could not get them to lower their guard.
The shadow is always lurking.