![]() ![]() Here are three suggestions on more immediately impactful things to offer instead: As he writes, “please, stop sending #love. ![]() Most usefully, he provides instructions on what we CAN do, if we want to do something meaningful. (How would you like it if someone told you how to feel? or not to feel?) Moreover, he points out that us telling people, “Don’t feel the need to respond,” is wrong on all accounts: it is oppressive, condescending and not appreciated by the recipient. Black people are drowning in our smug letters and texts, he says. The article is accompanied by the image above, by Hanna Barczyk, which says it all: hey white folks, stop drowning black people in your crocodile tears!īasically, Sanders is here to chastise us–white people like me who’ve written to our black friends this week–and to explain why our messages are misguided and tiring. But we need to get over it. I got a surge of new energy–and humility–this morning from reading the powerful article in the New York Times Op-Ed section by Chad Sanders (author of the forthcoming book, Black Magic). Exhausted, heart-sick, anxious and wretched? Me too. ![]()
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