In the wake of the killing of Armaud Arbery, who was black, as he was jogging through a suburban community in Georgia, Richard Demsick, who is white, decided to make a point about how being white makes all the difference in how running men are perceived, as he jogged for over two miles through the streets carrying a TV. Nobody mistook him for a thief. Nobody pulled a gun on him. Nobody even challenged him at all. Instead, they waved at him. Others have done similar runs as well.
If you’ve ever wondered what white privilege looks like: props to Richard Demsick for providing the world with Exhibit A #JusticeForAhmaud pic.twitter.com/xCqJ6WFrKL
— Jared Christopher (@JaredLChris) May 9, 2020
And it still goes on.
A black delivery driver in Oklahoma City had just delivered an appliance to a customer in a gated community when — as he was exiting — two white men blocked him in with a vehicle and interrogated him about why he was there. Why won’t white peoples leave us alone?