A fear that follows us everywhere, and watches our every word, action, and expression. It got me thinking about what minorities in America feel, day in, day out.ĭear white people: we minorities live in fear of you. I rolled my eyes, in a kind of weary despair. This essay is about a different topic.) What does that say? Tell you? Reveal? I’ll write about those, too, but not here. I didn’t just emptily mock Biden - I suggested his Presidency would fail for plenty of eminently logical set of reasons. (I’ll leave the actual critique, by the way, aside. And as a minority, I’m not allowed to do that. I’d critiqued someone that white liberals hold dear. I was told I was a murderer, a fascist, a Trumpist. One thing you can’t do, especially if you’re a minority, these days, is criticise Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s setting up his Presidency to fail.” Second mistake. And I remarked, offhand, without thinking too much about it: “ Lol. I read that Joe Biden was going to continue some of Trump’s “immigration policies,” meaning “privatized detention centers.” ( Translation: concentration camps.) I laughed, in disappoinment. That part is up to you.Ī funny and strange thing happened to me yesterday, and though it was ultimately minor, it is a tiny, tiny example of something that we minorities live with daily. It’s not for me to judge whether you are the kind of person I’m describing in this essay. I mean a certain kind of white person, a mentality that exists on both the liberal and conservative sides.
And by that, of course, I don’t mean all white people, every single last person. Now, I’m going to use the term “white people” in this essay. This is going to be a long, boring, enraging, and painful essay, and I highly recommend that you don’t read any of it.
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