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I sincerely hope a police officer never kills you, your family, or your pets. Sadly it’s a very real possibility, no matter how “innocent” (read: white) you are.
Yeah, this was the thing that should have been bigger during Black Lives Matter.
There's nothing special about skin color. If the cops decide to treat you like you're black, you're fucked. They're just more likely to do so if you ARE black. Black Lives Matter was about all lives, without changing the fucking slogan. If they can shoot a black kid because he ran away (and get away with it), they can shoot your kid too. I don't know what makes white people feel like they're somehow above this. If your dad isn't the President of the United States, nobody's going to help you when they shoot your kid.
Should people have been able to emphasize without making it personally relate to them? Absolutely. But they fucking wouldn't.