“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s still shocking to me that so many white people seem to think civil rights are just a black issue.
As if they’re something that only concerns people of color.
Of course we can! And many of us are. But we are rarely discriminated against on the basis of our race. And somehow accepting that fact seems to turn us against the very idea of civil rights.
We act as if talking about civil rights is code for black issues. Many of us refuse to even admit that black people have legitimate grievances in this area, that they’re just needlessly complaining and looking for sympathy, that they’re trying to get something for free or get…
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BLOGGYWOCKY 
I think a lot of it has to do where you live. Here in the south white women are probably treated a hair better than a person of color but it still makes me mad. And a lot of people are probably too young to remember that civil rights actually had a lot of support from the white community.
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