White versus Black children in the media.
Mar. 24th, 2018 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eeyore_grrlWhen we talk about white children who die we call them CHILDREN. When we talk about black children who die we call them MEN. This is not ok.
"Both of the men killed in the explosions, Anthony Stephan House, 39, and Draylen Mason, 17, were black, and so..."
A seventeen year old is still a minor, still a child. I love the Parkland kids. Even the ones who are old enough to vote, because if you are still in high school you are still a child and we, the adults, should protect you. That is our purpose, our job. Notice I said kids; Even though at least one of the *faces* of our new reality is Emma Gonzalez, age 18. Honestly, I want be her when I grow up. We need to see our biases for what they are. Like one of the other Parkland kids, David Hogg, said, those of us who can need to use our WHITE PRIVILEGE to make sure the BLACK community is heard, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/us/austin-bombing-targets.html
"Both of the men killed in the explosions, Anthony Stephan House, 39, and Draylen Mason, 17, were black, and so..."
A seventeen year old is still a minor, still a child. I love the Parkland kids. Even the ones who are old enough to vote, because if you are still in high school you are still a child and we, the adults, should protect you. That is our purpose, our job. Notice I said kids; Even though at least one of the *faces* of our new reality is Emma Gonzalez, age 18. Honestly, I want be her when I grow up. We need to see our biases for what they are. Like one of the other Parkland kids, David Hogg, said, those of us who can need to use our WHITE PRIVILEGE to make sure the BLACK community is heard, too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/us/austin-bombing-targets.html
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