It’s such a unique irritating feeling knowing someone isn’t evil, just very indoctrinated in apathetic whiteness. You can only free yourself by breaking your ppl’s generational obsession with “order,” being “polite”, and the idea of “niceness”. Become aware of the harm it causes.
As an adjunct to this piece, I often think of this 1966 Rod Serling speech where he talks about how his natural inclination is towards this attitude and how wrong it is: youtu.be/PyJUwZ0k-JQ?...
We analyzed this speech in class, and I was demoralized. One, they didn't want to read it in its entirety they wanted to look for the answers. Two, none of them got this point at all. 😭