False dilemma. Pick your battles, yes, but first pick your enemies. You can relate to this killing, and these and so very many other killings, around your humanism. You can't expect to tell other people they can only relate to this moment, and so many other moments in their lives, solely on the terms you feel most comfortable with, and then expect them to abide by your pronouncement. Of course civil rights are human rights. Not every struggle, however, is yours to define. Wish racism away, if you like. Waving it away like a Jedi mind-trick won't work, not with the people you're addressing but certainly not with Texas state troopers.
Still giving you my up-vote and agreeing you can't wish racism away. But, in the kindest words possible, you're doing it wrong.
So is anyone holding Sandra Bland up as some sort of jedi-mind-trick.
Publicizing the horrible nature of her death does what? Raises awareness that cops are bad? Or that racism still exists?
The only real thing that that publicizing her death will accomplish is to: widen the schism, torture her family with the constant reminder, and line the pockets of some fat, old white dudes who turn it into a grand conspiracy. She, nor I, nor you, nor anyone else will benefit from the level of attention that it is receiving and the manner in which it is being received. Nothing will change. Except we will live knowing there was nothing we could do for her.
Very much doubt that the Bland family is being tortured by, as you suggest, publicity. Very much doubt, also, your bizarre suggestion that popular outrage about her murder is chiefly going to benefit old, white conspiracists. I'm not getting you, here, except an impression that you feel so helpless that you'd rather we not speak about her death at all.
Trust me, the things her family will go through for the next 90 days and then for years to come are worse than anyone can imagine. They may not feel it now. But, they will.
I didn't say conspiracists. I said old and white. They mostly will line their pockets on the backs of the click-baiting and all of the media coverage that is to come. It's an old game. The technology may change, but in the end, it's still the same money heading the same directions. The media and the conglomerates make a lot off of death. It's really sad, and really true.
False dilemma. Pick your battles, yes, but first pick your enemies. You can relate to this killing, and these and so very many other killings, around your humanism. You can't expect to tell other people they can only relate to this moment, and so many other moments in their lives, solely on the terms you feel most comfortable with, and then expect them to abide by your pronouncement. Of course civil rights are human rights. Not every struggle, however, is yours to define. Wish racism away, if you like. Waving it away like a Jedi mind-trick won't work, not with the people you're addressing but certainly not with Texas state troopers.
Still giving you my up-vote and agreeing you can't wish racism away. But, in the kindest words possible, you're doing it wrong.
So is anyone holding Sandra Bland up as some sort of jedi-mind-trick.
Publicizing the horrible nature of her death does what? Raises awareness that cops are bad? Or that racism still exists?
The only real thing that that publicizing her death will accomplish is to: widen the schism, torture her family with the constant reminder, and line the pockets of some fat, old white dudes who turn it into a grand conspiracy. She, nor I, nor you, nor anyone else will benefit from the level of attention that it is receiving and the manner in which it is being received. Nothing will change. Except we will live knowing there was nothing we could do for her.
Very much doubt that the Bland family is being tortured by, as you suggest, publicity. Very much doubt, also, your bizarre suggestion that popular outrage about her murder is chiefly going to benefit old, white conspiracists. I'm not getting you, here, except an impression that you feel so helpless that you'd rather we not speak about her death at all.
I don't feel helpless.
Trust me, the things her family will go through for the next 90 days and then for years to come are worse than anyone can imagine. They may not feel it now. But, they will.
I didn't say conspiracists. I said old and white. They mostly will line their pockets on the backs of the click-baiting and all of the media coverage that is to come. It's an old game. The technology may change, but in the end, it's still the same money heading the same directions. The media and the conglomerates make a lot off of death. It's really sad, and really true.