{"id":59872,"date":"2020-07-05T20:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59872"},"modified":"2020-07-05T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T20:31:32","slug":"no-room-for-beige-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59872","title":{"rendered":"No Room for Beige Tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/post\/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>No Room for Beige Tears<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alison Hart<\/a><br \/>\n2020-06-08<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Alison Hart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/post\/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/a27d24_26e2222a198c48b3b9ccb3265583b585~mv2.jpg\/v1\/fill\/w_761,h_464,al_c,lg_1,q_90\/a27d24_26e2222a198c48b3b9ccb3265583b585~mv2.webp\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the video went viral of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_George_Floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd mercilessly murdered<\/a> in the street by police, held down, knee on neck, for eight minutes and forty-six seconds, the whole world woke up to the American dream for what it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shooting_of_Breonna_Taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breonna Taylor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_of_Ahmaud_Arbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ahmaud Arbery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Sandra_Bland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandra Bland<\/a>, and many more Black lives brutalized and murdered by police and white supremacists in a country that claims \u201cliberty and justice for all.\u201d We still haven\u2019t gotten off the plantation the racist system locked in place, four hundred years of Black resistance\u2014locked in place\u2014lock them up in prisons, in poverty as disposable citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alameda,_California\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alameda, California<\/a>, where I live, a Black man was recently arrested for dancing on the street. That\u2019s right, dancing. He was doing his usual morning exercise routine and a white neighbor called the police. The result: police pinned him to the ground, handcuffed, arrested, and detained him. It\u2019s on video, you can look it up. It could have turned deadly when he reached for his keys, deadly at any moment. White people policing Black bodies by calling police because of their unchecked discomfort and racial bias too often yields fatal results and should be charged as hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p>White America is uncomfortable, and I say get used to it. As a mixed race Black, Native American, Irish, Scottish, English woman I have developed the skill to decenter in this racially stratified society. In order to have empathy for another\u2019s experience, I need to decenter my own. I am able to hold my disequilibrium when in any group of people. Decentering is the first step that allows you to feel empathy outside your experience. Wherever I am I do not expect people to \u201cget\u201d me, to make my existence okay, or validate me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mostlywhitenovel.com\/post\/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That discomfort you feel is the beginning of decentering your whiteness, decentering your privilege to move from judgement to empathy.<\/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":[29133],"class_list":["post-59872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-alison-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872","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=59872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59874,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59872\/revisions\/59874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}