Folge 10 – nicht normal (II)

Samstag, 06. Juni 2020. Unsere Welt ist im Aufruhr – ausnahmsweise
nicht wegen Covid-19, sondern weil ein tragischer Tod die USA
erschüttert hat und Menschen inzwischen an vielen Orten gegen
Rassismus und systematische Unterdrückung auf die Straße gehen.
Mich hat dabei ein Post einer weißen amerikanischen Freundin
beschäftigt, die nicht nur kritisch nach außen, sondern auch nach
innen schaut, und ich setze mich in dieser Folge damit auseinander.
Music: "Life Illusion" by Ketsa From the Free Music Archive
(www.freemusicarchive.com) CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Hier ihre Liste: 1. I
thought being a different race was similar to being left-handed. 2.
I thought that anybody could be successful with enough hard work.
3. I was afraid to support Black Lives Matter because of what my
White friends might think. 4. I’ve failed to see police brutality
for what it is and wanted there to be “another side of the story”
so that I didn’t have to see racism against the Black community. 5.
I’ve stayed silent when atrocities happened to Black people because
I didn’t want to “be political.” 6. I believed that color blindness
was a good thing and that we were all more or less the same. 7. I
believed that the northern United States wasn’t racist or less
racist because we didn’t own slaves and weren’t a part of the
confederacy. 8. I thought having Black and Brown friends made me
immune from racism. 9. I thought that I couldn’t do something
racist if “I didn’t mean” to cause harm. 10. I have failed to call
out tokenism, racist jokes and terms and sometimes even failed to
realize the racism that was happening in these things.