If we allow things to continue as they’re going then sooner or later every parent of any colour (except for the wealthiest white people) will be having “The Talk” with their kids about the police. With increasing inequality, I have to wonder if that hasn’t already started happening in poor white communities where there aren’t enough darker-skinned people for the police to harass.
Ultimately, being the victim at the end of Pastor Niemoller’s poem is little better than being one of the victims at the beginning. One has to be incredibly complacent, smug, and blind to one’s privilege not to recognise that.
