My life, your hashtag
Young kings, listening to your "allies" comes at great risk. There are people who only see you as a future hashtag. Don't become one.
Sacrifice yourself for the cause, brother!
The next time a cop pulls you over, argue. The next time you’re given an order, fight back.
So says Chelsea Handler, noted ally to the black man.
Handler’s tweet was the most egregious, but it’s only best in breed among an ally genre that increasingly treats our young kings not as beautiful black men, but future hashtags.
I see now why they’re called “allies” and not friends. Friends would never want bad for you. With allies like these, the black man hardly needs enemies.
Allies care only about the greater good, and that requires all to play their part. Some parts, of course, are more equal than others.
Their part is to act like children online. Swearing, threatening, really acting the aggrieved, really sharing in the world’s suffering. From the comfort of home. Heroes in yoga pants. Just ask them.
Your part, young king, is to die at the hands of police, and become a hashtag. George Floyd’s face is muralized in every big city in America. That could be you, if only you sacrificed for the greater good!
It’s obvious from her tweet that Handler wasn’t up all night poring over data.
As I’ve written before, there are many millions of traffic stops per year. Very few end in fatal violence.
It’s certainly not a “50/50” chance that, if you comply with the police, you will wind up dead at their hands. Those odds are closer to a tree falling on you randomly. But when it’s not your kids, you don’t need to get the numbers right. What you need is more hashtags. More “justice” to fight for.
Young king: if you insist on listening to your “allies,” make sure you really hear them. Chelsea is fine volunteering your life on the altar of justice, but won’t get off her couch and do the same.
Let she who urges people to pick fights with the cops pick the first one themselves.
We won’t hold our breath waiting for that video.