We Are Not Like Them

by Christine Pride

But are you willing to acknowledge how much you benefit from white supremacy? That every single social, political, and legal system in

maintained by white people, on the bedrock idea of white power, and that allows you to move through the world with a basic confidence in your sense of safety, opportunity, and respect. That as white people you are automatically associated with everything that is good and right and ‘normal,’ and everyone else’s experiences and value are weighed

The longer you let something go, the easier it is to stay silent, and the silence is where the resentment starts to fester and rot.”

That white folks will just go about their lives and pity Black folks, and wonder why they can’t get ahead, get a break, just behave already, listen to the police. Those white folks will send their children off to school and know they’re safe. They’ll