Acknowledge the ongoing injustices, and make them part of your reality.
by two white men, a father and his son, who thought he fit the description of a man who committed a recent crime. They armed themselves and followed him, then shot and killed him. On May 5, video of the incident surfaced, which led to an arrest of the two men a few days later.
The very act of running is a sign of privilege. At the very least, it signals that you have time for recreation and disposable income for gear or race fees. For some it is not only privilege, but also a radical act of reclamation because we live in a country where racism and segregation long determined access to freedom.As the child of two track athletes, my earliest memories of the sport include running around a gravel loop with my family.
, which discusses the shared experience of witnessing violence. With the advent of cell phone videos, we now see “Rodney King-like” beatings and murders of black people at the hands of the police constantly.What does it do to us as a community to have to witness this and to see nothing being done, to see that excused as justifiable? This isn’t happening to white people. We aren’t learning their names and mourning their deaths and sitting enraged and helpless while the perpetrators walk free.
After the incident, an owner noted that I seemed distracted at work. I explained how yes, that and the death of Michael Brown, which had happened before the burn incident, had been on my mind. “No offense, but if I was out working and just trying to get home and do my job and some kids were walking in front of me and messing with me, I’d be out there hitting and stopping kids too,” he responded over the phone. I quit that week.The words stuck with me.
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