quick thoughts on staying silent

collarpoints:

• choosing to avoid discussing, emotionally distance yourself from or ignore Ferguson and other anti-black violence is a privilege that non-black people have. black people are in peril basically by existing, and have no choice in it
• staying silent is not a ‘neutral’ position, but a ‘default’ position, and the default position is the one that made violence against black people permissible in the first place
• silence is what people who support anti-black violence take as support, by making a ‘default’ space where situations like Ferguson aren’t important enough to be talked about