Oof, yeah, that's rough. This is the work. Standing up for what's right is hard. Speaking up is hard. Risking criticism is hard. This is why so many people resort to #doingthework by reading books or posting black squares on Instagram or anonymously yelling at people on Twitter.
It's easy to say that we care, it's easy to make these low …
Oof, yeah, that's rough. This is the work. Standing up for what's right is hard. Speaking up is hard. Risking criticism is hard. This is why so many people resort to #doingthework by reading books or posting black squares on Instagram or anonymously yelling at people on Twitter.
It's easy to say that we care, it's easy to make these low cost gestures, but it's hard to back it up with action. We all fall short sometimes. All we can hope is that the times we fail make us more determined to succeed on the next occasion.
Suppose he had said something like "Wait on that gentleman first, or I'm going elsewhere". I think there's a pretty good chance that the clerk would have beaten up the black guy or made his life miserable in someway. Unless you are planning on moving into that town and protecting the black guy for the rest of your life, you have no way of stopping this. Being afraid of this, The black guy would probably have said something like "Oh no, you go ahead, I don't need anything." So yeah you're right, the work is hard.
Oof, yeah, that's rough. This is the work. Standing up for what's right is hard. Speaking up is hard. Risking criticism is hard. This is why so many people resort to #doingthework by reading books or posting black squares on Instagram or anonymously yelling at people on Twitter.
It's easy to say that we care, it's easy to make these low cost gestures, but it's hard to back it up with action. We all fall short sometimes. All we can hope is that the times we fail make us more determined to succeed on the next occasion.
Suppose he had said something like "Wait on that gentleman first, or I'm going elsewhere". I think there's a pretty good chance that the clerk would have beaten up the black guy or made his life miserable in someway. Unless you are planning on moving into that town and protecting the black guy for the rest of your life, you have no way of stopping this. Being afraid of this, The black guy would probably have said something like "Oh no, you go ahead, I don't need anything." So yeah you're right, the work is hard.