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I Suppose My Activism Is Working?

Jeffrey Rousseau
3 min readMay 21, 2019

A day ago or so ago someone messaged & told me I’m being Anti -White & “racist towards white folks”. There is literally numerous facts that render that notion entirely false. The following is a series of thoughts on that fallacy & how my small time activism isn’t a threat. Or maybe it is?

I’m mainly speaking to White folks. So share this with them.

Now if you come up to a person of color or any marginalized person & tell them they are being discriminatory to the majority (you)… for holding the majority largely accountable for the system in place, you better be ready to answer to all the facts they can fire off in reply to you. Because nothing is equal for the marginalized.

You may think you can approach someone with respectability regarding conversation about systemic issues… that’s laughable.

How do you attempt to speak about Black people being likely to face police brutality?

Or the fact Black households aren’t worth as much as White homes.

Perhaps we can be respectable regarding the pay disparity that Black people face?

Oh even better, we can speak respectability when Black schools earn less due to being Black?

I was accused of the fact I share very disparaging content against whiteness. My immediate…

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Jeffrey Rousseau
Jeffrey Rousseau

Written by Jeffrey Rousseau

Award winning journalist, committed to amplifying marginalized voices, and elevating the accuracy and quality of reporting.

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