we all need to fight

There is a con­ver­sa­tion to be had here … re­gard­less of which al­bum was “best.”

Adele did some­thing from which we can all take a cue. She point­ed out what she felt was racial in­jus­tice (the sub­tle kind that goes un­seen and per­pet­u­ates the prob­lem) in a classy and ef­fec­tive way.
 

Take no­tice, and take ac­tion – small changes will work to erode the racial di­vide that still ex­ists. The sim­plest acts can make this change …

Ex­am­ple, a while back I mes­saged J.Crew ask­ing them why I didn’t see a per­son of col­or un­til page 57 of their cat­a­logue. I think I ac­tu­al­ly said some­thing to the ef­fect of, “what’s up with all the skin­ny white girls?”

They wrote back and thanked me – I’m prob­a­bly not the only one who asked – be­cause the most re­cent cat­a­logue I re­ceived in the mail fea­tured many races, start­ing with the cov­er on­ward.

It is – and has be­come – the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of white peo­ple to call it out and speak for those who have been his­tor­i­cal­ly op­pressed. If some­one from an op­pressed cul­ture has said some­thing in the past it has been way too easy for white peo­ple to pass it off as the ‘race card’ rather than ac­tu­al­ly fac­ing the dis­com­fort of the re­al­i­ty and chal­leng­ing their own priv­i­lege.

Not per­son­al­ly be­ing racist is not enough right now, and hasn’t been for a long time. Adele had the lux­u­ry of speak­ing from a place of priv­i­lege and in a wide­ly pub­li­cized set­ting – I’m glad she chose to do so. Her call­ing this out will hope­ful­ly raise aware­ness and mo­ti­vate oth­ers to do the same in their dai­ly lives.

It’s im­por­tant to no­tice these things, but even more im­por­tant to do some­thing. A re­ac­tion to this needs to come from all races, not just the offended/oppressed group — we all need to fight for each oth­er.

We are all in this to­geth­er.
 

—dan­ger hol­ly

Flom­mist DAN­GER Hol­ly builds espres­so-fu­eled cog­ni­tive states. Copy­right © 2017 DAN­GER Hol­ly. Pic­tured: J.Crew cat­a­logue cov­er (ro­tat­ed, cropped), Au­gust 2007.

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