Welcome to Democracyish.

I'm Toray.

And I'm Danielle Moody.

And you want to see how whiteness works?

Tell me.

Some maniac walked into a spa, a group of massage parlor, whatever.

Murdered a whole bunch of people.

And the cops want us to know he was having a bad day.

Now, yes, this is probably factual, but why we are concerned with his emotions and trying to understand him and feeling any level of empathy and humanity toward him, even though he has done something evil, horrible, and

despicable.

And yet when we, see, the whole thing I feel like is that we don't get sufficient humanity

and the expectation of being human from white people,

and they overextend humanity to each other.

So you get Dylan Roof getting a burger on the way to lifetime in prison

because he's just a white boy who had a rough day.

Whereas Jacob Blake, who's walking away from cops, a family man, gets shot in the back.

And on and on and on.

You know, why George Floyd gets his ass beat in the car and then strangled on the street.

But there's all sorts of videos on Instagram of white man wrestles with police officers,

beats them when he escapes from their clutches, maybe takes their police car.

And majestically and magically remains unshot. There are no bullet

holes in him whatsoever. Because this is how whiteness works. The expectation of humanity is

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