Color me guilty of this. You probably are as well. It’s just far too easy to blame practical and existential difficulties on others. After all, we’re doing and thinking all the right things.
Aren’t we?
I don’t know about you, but I’m not. I’m not doing much of anything except bitching about how “they” are making my life so bad.
But the truth is my life is as it is because of the choices I’ve made. There was some luck involved, but it’s all on me for the most part. I suspect that’s true for most of us.
The unpalatable truth is there is no them. There’s only us.
And we have to work together. That isn’t an option. That’s survival.
If we don’t find some way to work together, then nobody wins.
That’s the second biggest fallacy: One side can win. That’s just not possible. There’s no winning here. There’s only losing. And that’s what’s happening right now.
We’re losing.
All of us. Because there’s no them. It’s all us. And if anyone loses, we all lose.
White power groups live in a fantasy world where eliminating everyone of color will fix everything.
That will never happen and if it did it would fix nothing.
We have to fix this. If we don’t, there’s no real future for any of us.
