To White People Resistant to Dismantling Systemic Racism When The Murder of George Floyd Wasn’t Enough

This Is Your Fight Because You Have Skin in the Game of Anti-Racism Too

Because of racism, white people aren’t free. If the most extreme forms of how our society is permeated with anti-blackness don’t move you — if the time it took for George Floyd to die and the manner of his death wasn’t enough — maybe recognizing that you have skin in the game will convince you of the vicious imperativeness of eradicating racism. I won’t and can’t say more skin in the game because, when Black people have quite literally paid with their blood and their lives for hundreds of years to even get us to where we are today on the issue of racism, you can’t possibly have more skin in this, but the push to dismantle racism is and should be your fight too and no, not because reverse racism is a thing because it isn’t. Every white person has self-interested reasons to wish to hasten the demise of racism. Even if you can’t muster compassion for black human beings who have died at the hands of police or are subject to the many ways society is proven to oppress Black people collectively and individually, you should consider your own self interest at least.