my fellow white people

This commentary by Stephen Colbert is worth every word:

Over the past 10 days, the people have publicly assembled to petition the government to redress their grievances. And in response, our leaders are trying to intimidate us into silence. It won't work. First, the government is too weak. How weak? Weak enough to shove an old man. As Isaac Asimov said, "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Second to last refuge: desperately tweeting, "Law and order."
And second of all, they are out numbered. There are just too many voices in too many cities and towns from Hawaii to Maine, all demanding that every American receive equally he first government benefit ever promised us: the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And you are not going to intimidate them. If you think you are going to make them protest the way you want them to, then you have never protested before. The whole point is making the powerful uncomfortable.

Speaking of comfort, I want to speak to my fellow white people for a moment, if I may.

What are you afraid of:
Violence? Then you would get rid of guns.
Losing money to redistribution? Then you would tax the rich who pay less then you do.
Reparations? How much money have you lost just this year to the criminal mismanagement of the COVID crisis?
Loss of control? We white people have no problem losing control when the wedding DJ plays Bruno Mars.

This movement, this moment will not end without demonstrable, quantifiable change: new laws, new consequences for those who abuse their power.

Maybe that is why our government is afraid. They know that representative government is powerless without the consent of the consent of the people. Once it loses consent, then it is no longer representative. It is, to borrow the words of a sad little man pretending to be his lawyer, "not real."

And white Americans will soon be a minority. And that's great. Our only spice is potato.

Learn from history. The minority has never been able to control the majority without denying the majority's humanity and thereby losing their own."



via {Late Show with Stephen Colbert}