Hello:
As a person of color and native Seattleite who went to middle school in the Central Area, I found your editorial this week highly racially offensive. You don't mention that the Lakewood and Leschi murders were by black men and that the victims were all white. You condemn the SPOG while not mentioning the murders of James Paroline ("the traffic circle gardener" in Rainier Beach), Tuba Man, Danny Vega, Kris Kime, or Dien Huynh, all killed by unarmed black men.
Your editorial board could not see that the expression "We Shall Overcome" is not owned by any single racial group, and that it could be turned on its head to ask the African-American community whether or not they have heeded Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's exhortation to non-violence.
I was beaten up several times in the late '60s--shoved, pummelled in the head and stomach and kicked to the sidewalk--by young blacks.
You ignore the statistics which show that 95% of the killings of black people are by other blacks, and that the killings, justified or not, of black people by cops is a tiny fraction therein, thereby fueling the misperceptions that the Black Lives Mattern movement perpetuates.
As a person of color, a Vietnam War conscientious objector, and a liberal, I am outraged by your vehemently biased coverage of this national tragedy.
I refuse to let a group of young or middle-aged white liberals tell me what and how to think, when I know better than them what racial prejudice feels like both on the inside and outside.
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire