PICTURE: SHUTTERSTOCK This post is going to cost me (even more) friends. Oh well.Following EWWI (Electronic World War One) over #BlackLivesMatter versus #AllLivesMatter over last Friday and Thursday, I hereby make a case for as broad-scale a return of full-blown, institutionalised white supremacy as possible.Snipers shoot 11 police officers, killing five, in DallasWe Live White Supremacy AnywayIt has been generally known that Persons Of Colour (POCs) around the world get “the talk” in some form or another.Growing up, we are made aware that there is a system that should, but does not, treat POCs the same way as white people. This systemic racism most starkly shows its existence in instances of overt racism; the rest of the time it is subtle and insidious. We are made aware that ignoring this system’s existence has graver consequences for POCs than it has for white people who never have to come to grips with their place of privilege in it. This is why movements like #BlackLivesMat...
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