I'll just leave this here..

  Just think about how this plays out every time a politician or celebrity gets caught out there. It always starts out as a “what they did” conversation. But as soon as the celebrity and their defenders get on camera, they start doing judo flips and switching it into a “what they are” conversation. “I have known this person for years and I know for a fact that they are not a racist. How dare you claim to know what’s inside their soul just because they made one little joke about watermelon, tap dancing, and going back to Africa.”  

And then you try to explain that we don’t need to see inside their soul to know they shouldn’t have said all that about the watermelon. And you try to focus on the facts of the situation, but by then it’s too late because the “what they are” conversation is a rhetorical Bermuda triangle where everything drowns in a sea of empty posturing until someone just blames it all on hip-hop and we forget the whole thing ever happened. Don’t let this happen to you.  

When somebody picks my pocket, I’m not gonna be chasing him down so I can figure out whether he feels like he’s a thief deep down in his heart. I’m gonna be chasing him down so I can get my wallet back. I don’t care what he is, but I need to hold him accountable for what he did. And that’s how we need to approach these conversations about race. Treat them like they took your wallet and focus on the part that matters, holding each person accountable for the impact of their words and actions.

  I don’t care what you are. I care about what you did

Original post by Isha Aran on Jezebel

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