Resisting the Normalcy of White Racism Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Resisting the Normalcy of White Racism

Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública: Resisting the Normalcy of White Racism:

Resisting the Normalcy of White Racism

I AM NOT TRAYVON MARTIN. 
I AM NOT TROY DAVIS.
Antiracist White Teen Speaks to Her Peers About Confronting Racism



NOTE: This was posted last year on Mar 31, 2012

My thoughts on whiteness, privilege, and activism in the wake of Trayvon's murder.

Transcript:

I AM NOT TRAYVON MARTIN.
I AM NOT TROY DAVIS.

...and to the middle class, white, socially concerned activist who wears a shirt emblazoned with those slogans, you are wrong. 

I know you wear that shirt to stand in solidarity with Trayvon, Troy, and other victims of injustice. The purpose of those shirts is to humanize these victims of our society, by likening them to the middle class white activist wearing it. And once we've humanized the victims, this proves to us the arbitrariness of their deaths and thereby the injustice at play.

But the fact of the matter is that these men's deaths are anything but arbitrary. The fact that the real Troy Davis