Chika Unigwe's Blog - Posts Tagged "racism-blm"
For those who love to say , “It’s just a few bad apples , not all cops,” :
For those who love to say , “It’s just a few bad apples , not all cops,” :
You do know the full sayng is that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch? Would you tolerate one bad apple (say a pedophile teacher) at your child's school, especially if that pedophile teacher targeted people who looked like your child? If the school kept that teacher on, covered up for that teacher, and people protested against the school and the teachers (because by covering up, they are all complicit), would you still be saying, "it's only a few bad apples" and keep sending your child to the school (hoping that the bad apple) would spare her?
And those who love to shout “ All lives matter," each time they hear #Black Lives Matter , should know that BLM has an implicit, too. It says black lives matter (too.) Lots of people have drawn really apt analogies to explain this, but let me add this : say that pedophile teacher from my previous analogy targeted only little blonde girls , all the other children at the school were safe from him, and the school did nothing and the parents of little blonde girls and their allies decide to fight back and protect / get justice for the victims , and they come up with the phrase, Protect Our Blonde Daughters, to draw attention to their cause ,wouldn’t it be ridiculous for people - parents of non-blonde daughters and maybe even some parents of blonde girls to start shouting them down with “All children must be protected ,” wouldnt it be silly for parents of non-blonde girls whose children are already safe to not understand that what these other parents are asking/ fighting for is their own children’s safety ( too) ; wouldn’t it be cruel to try to detract from the message , knowing the dangers these blonde girls face? #BLM is a movement and a hashtag that came out of a particular culture of violence / injustice against black bodies, a particular history of racial discrimination against black people.
#blacklivesmatter #racism #america
You do know the full sayng is that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch? Would you tolerate one bad apple (say a pedophile teacher) at your child's school, especially if that pedophile teacher targeted people who looked like your child? If the school kept that teacher on, covered up for that teacher, and people protested against the school and the teachers (because by covering up, they are all complicit), would you still be saying, "it's only a few bad apples" and keep sending your child to the school (hoping that the bad apple) would spare her?
And those who love to shout “ All lives matter," each time they hear #Black Lives Matter , should know that BLM has an implicit, too. It says black lives matter (too.) Lots of people have drawn really apt analogies to explain this, but let me add this : say that pedophile teacher from my previous analogy targeted only little blonde girls , all the other children at the school were safe from him, and the school did nothing and the parents of little blonde girls and their allies decide to fight back and protect / get justice for the victims , and they come up with the phrase, Protect Our Blonde Daughters, to draw attention to their cause ,wouldn’t it be ridiculous for people - parents of non-blonde daughters and maybe even some parents of blonde girls to start shouting them down with “All children must be protected ,” wouldnt it be silly for parents of non-blonde girls whose children are already safe to not understand that what these other parents are asking/ fighting for is their own children’s safety ( too) ; wouldn’t it be cruel to try to detract from the message , knowing the dangers these blonde girls face? #BLM is a movement and a hashtag that came out of a particular culture of violence / injustice against black bodies, a particular history of racial discrimination against black people.
#blacklivesmatter #racism #america
