"Something tells me that if the brave young people who did the sit-ins at lunch counters and faced off against the goons on the other side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge had the choice, they'd've been just fine with micro aggressions."
But that thought is exactly the problem. White people and politicians hiding behind the illusion that these big strokes of progress are enough, that black people know it's better than it used to be when they couldn't vote or could be hung for looking at a white woman or beaten to death for sitting in the wrong seat or tormented for going to school with white people, etc. This movement isn't only about micro aggressions... but pointing out that freedom fighters of the civil rights movement and prior would prefer micro aggressions IS a micro aggression and just perpetuates the notion that things are fine, and that there are no macro aggressions going on now/still/since, when there are countless. |
