Originally Posted by
Jodie
What these young people are doing is wrong but transgenerational trauma or multigeneraltional PTSD related to persecution of a culture crosses all socioeconomic classes. They aren't acting like spoiled brats, they are venting rage that never had a voice before because we are told to get over it, stiff upper lip, and move on. There is a better way to do that, Martin Luther King had it right. So it wasn't a problem to ask all of the brown people to take a day of absence but when white people were asked to leave it caused a problem, see the hypocrisy? It works both ways.
No, I don't see the hypocrisy. Here, let me clarify this for you.
Prior to this year,
brown people asked other brown people to take a day of absence
with them to demonstrate to white people how valuable brown people are, and to show how integral brown people are to a society that has repeatedly undervalued them.
This year,
brown people told white people that they should take a day of absence
instead of them... but there isn't a clear explanation of what that is supposed to accomplish.