NAAWP: “How Keeping Our Sons Safe Makes It OK for Whites to Be Racists”
The Jordan Davis case led some
parents to give their kids “the talk.” But doing so absolves white people of
their responsibility to unlearn stereotypes that scare them.
parents to give their kids “the talk.” But doing so absolves white people of
their responsibility to unlearn stereotypes that scare them.
Jordan
Davis
Davis
R.I.P.
Jordan Davis Facebook Page
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The slaying of 17-year-old Jordan
Davis by a white man who didn’t appreciate his taste in music had some black
people scrambling to give black boys “the talk” about how not to scare white
people into shooting them.
Davis by a white man who didn’t appreciate his taste in music had some black
people scrambling to give black boys “the talk” about how not to scare white
people into shooting them.
The Rev. John Guns, pastor of St.
Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was one of them.
Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was one of them.
Using the trial of 47-year-old Michael Dunn—who,
on Nov. 23, 2012, fired nine bullets into the SUV that Jordan and two of his friends were sitting in
after he argued with the teens over loud music—as a launching point, Guns talked to black boys about
the importance of not exacerbating trouble with people who might be threatened
by them and their skin.
on Nov. 23, 2012, fired nine bullets into the SUV that Jordan and two of his friends were sitting in
after he argued with the teens over loud music—as a launching point, Guns talked to black boys about
the importance of not exacerbating trouble with people who might be threatened
by them and their skin.
At one point Guns brought a young
man up on the stage who was wearing a hoodie—which Trayvon Martin was wearing
in February 2012 when he was stalked and fatally shot by George Zimmerman—and
told him that whenever he walked inside a store, he needed to take the hood
off. Better to walk out of the store, he said, than to wind up being killed at
age 18 for ... well, scaring some squirrelly store owner into thinking you were
there to rob the place.
man up on the stage who was wearing a hoodie—which Trayvon Martin was wearing
in February 2012 when he was stalked and fatally shot by George Zimmerman—and
told him that whenever he walked inside a store, he needed to take the hood
off. Better to walk out of the store, he said, than to wind up being killed at
age 18 for ... well, scaring some squirrelly store owner into thinking you were
there to rob the place.
To be sure, Guns’ advice is sound
and pragmatic—and a lot of black parents who love their children are probably
repeating it. I understand it.
and pragmatic—and a lot of black parents who love their children are probably
repeating it. I understand it.
But I don’t like it.
I don’t like it because as practical
as it is, it inadvertently feeds the notion that black youths, and black males
in particular, ought to capitulate to racist whites in order not to suffer at
their hands.
as it is, it inadvertently feeds the notion that black youths, and black males
in particular, ought to capitulate to racist whites in order not to suffer at
their hands.
And any white man who believes that
black kids ought to turn down their music because he doesn’t like it, even if
they are only sharing the same parking lot for a few minutes, isn’t seeking
respect.
black kids ought to turn down their music because he doesn’t like it, even if
they are only sharing the same parking lot for a few minutes, isn’t seeking
respect.
He’s expecting submission.
Any white store owner, or night
watchman, who expects a black youth to take off his hood because it scares him,
even though that black youth has no plans to do anything scary, isn’t asking for
respect but for his irrational fears to be coddled.
watchman, who expects a black youth to take off his hood because it scares him,
even though that black youth has no plans to do anything scary, isn’t asking for
respect but for his irrational fears to be coddled.
NAAWP RESPONSE to this STORY: BLACKS RAPE, ROB and KILL over 1,200 WHITE
PEOPLE every single day in AMERICA and the DEPARTMENT of RACIAL INJUSTICE, the
PRESIDENT, the LIBERAL MEDIA, the SOUTHERN POVERTY LIARS & SINNERS,
the ANTI-DEFACATION LEAGUE, the RAINBOW PUSH COALITION and the NATIONAL
ACTION NETWORK continue to IGNOR the OBVIOUS!
... what a BUNCH of RACIST AZZOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NAAWP calls "BULL$HYT"
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