A Plague of White Submissiveness
Christopher DeGroot
June 12, 2020
Gone With the Wind
A strange thing happened on Saturday in Carey, North Carolina. During Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a group of white people, including police officers, cleaned the feet of black religious leaders and protest organizers, while offering a prayer repenting for the sins inflicted on black people. In the video, there’s a man with a megaphone leading the prayer; he also asks for forgiveness for the enslavement, mistreatment, and oppression of blacks.
All that, you might say, over the murder of George Floyd? Yes, and there’s a lot more, including the purging of the past.
“Activists and organizers and people who are part of these racial-justice movements, including young white people, recognize that we can’t change policing in America until we change the culture of America, and the culture of America has been deeply steeped in white supremacist celebration and racist norms, of which Confederate monuments are the most visible symbols,†says Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard University.
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