{"id":48145,"date":"2016-07-09T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48145"},"modified":"2016-10-26T22:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:36:45","slug":"white-people-dont-tell-me-what-martin-luther-king-would-think-of-black-lives-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48145","title":{"rendered":"White people, don\u2019t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

White people, don\u2019t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vox<\/a>
\n2016-07-08<\/p>\n

Jon Crowley<\/strong><\/a>
\nToronto, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

I woke up Thursday morning and accidentally watched a video of Alton Sterling<\/a> being killed by the police. In a world of social feeds and autoplaying video, I\u2019m far from the only person who had this experience. Within 10 minutes I was reading descriptions of how Philando Castile<\/a> had been killed, again by the police.<\/p>\n

Like many people of color, I\u2019ve been warned about interactions with the police since I was a little kid. Despite being a light-skinned, mixed-race black person, despite growing up in a safe suburban area, this warning was a part of my childhood.<\/p>\n

And seeing, very explicitly, how easily two black men met violent deaths at the hands of people who are supposed to serve their communities, pushed me past my hard-earned emotional distance from the subject and made me feel scared. Scared and alone, even as I saw the reactions pouring out from people of every race, nationality, and culture, looking to express the same fear and outrage.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of people from other communities or racial groups who want to express support, and a lot of people who want to explain why these men had it coming.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve made it this far, I\u2019m going to assume you\u2019re trying to find something positive to do or say, beyond offering hopes or prayers or condolences.<\/p>\n

If you want to know what I\u2019d consider the bare minimum of support you could offer to the people of color in your life, here\u2019s a starting point:…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White people, don\u2019t tell me what Martin Luther King would think of Black Lives Matter Vox 2016-07-08 Jon Crowley Toronto, Ontario, Canada I woke up Thursday morning and accidentally watched a video of Alton Sterling being killed by the police. In a world of social feeds and autoplaying video, I\u2019m far from the only person […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,23674,20],"tags":[24439,24437,9249,15296,24438,18116],"class_list":["post-48145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-alton-sterling","tag-jon-crowley","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-martin-luther-king-jr","tag-philando-castile","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48146,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48145\/revisions\/48146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}