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White people’s sentiments regarding restitution/reparations as being almost too big to even consider gives me pause.

On one hand it does get to the enormity of the issue. On the other, it can also be seen as a ‘throwing up of hands’; since no amount would ever be sufficient, or even adequate, then nothing at all is done.

The Hope Diamond is considered ‘invaluable’–(not even considering at all the land and the people who get anal cavity searches from whom it was outright stolen–they have no value at all–never forget it was not a white person who mined it)–but nobody would use that as an excuse for offering $3.99 for it, like it was in the bargain bin at Target.

Also, this work of reckoning, which I endorse, is not to be done in a vacuum. As I posted in a meme earlier, waiting for white people’s acknowledgement and morality to catch up with the issue is a fool’s errand. The work must be done on two tracks.

White people think that their ‘reflections’ and ‘reckoning’, like the hearts and likes you see here on black and brown people’s posts, have actual currency and value beyond their own dopamine rushes. They don’t.

This newfound acknowledgement of the issue is the beginning of the conversation, yes, but it cannot be allowed to be yet another exercise in white people’s self-protection and self aggrandizement, cloaked in disingenuous self awareness and self reflection.

Put bluntly, it cannot be yet another white people’s stalling tactic.

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