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Earlier today I caught up with a friend who is a Black woman living in the NYC area. We talked about the wane of BLM energy, the reality of the movement and the words even in an area so ‘woke’ as where we are.
She told me about a recent grocery store visit in one of the more woke boroughs. Facing the street, prominently displayed, was a beautiful Black Lives Matter sign. Yet when she was inside and needed help, she was ignored and treated rudely by certain staff.
How can you say Black Lives Matter when your actions don’t reflect it? She said. What good is a sign if not only nothing changes, but also if people don’t actually mean it.
The second story.
A different Black woman recently saw her doctor in NY to run some tests. He asked her how she was feeling lately.
Stressed? Election? This year?
Yes, she answered. All/lot of it.
“You know, it hasn’t been easy for white men either” -he, a white male doctor.
A different Black woman recently saw her doctor in NY to run some tests. He asked her how she was feeling lately.
Stressed? Election? This year?
Yes, she answered. All/lot of it.
“You know, it hasn’t been easy for white men either” -he, a white male doctor.
She waited for the appointment to end because she needed to have the tests. Then she told him
How offensive it was that he, a doctor with his own practice in Manhattan, responded that way after she talked about her stress, how insensitive and inappropriate and also..
How offensive it was that he, a doctor with his own practice in Manhattan, responded that way after she talked about her stress, how insensitive and inappropriate and also..
That she would no longer be returning as a patient.
It’s so easy to get comfortable. To want to feel comfortable again that it’s easy to forget the work isn’t over. For Black people, other people of color, it takes work every day to let this roll off their shoulders and not let it bury them.
Comfort is a warning sign.
Comfort is a warning sign.
