I am not Trayvon Martin. Neither is my little cousin with me here at Christmas dinner. As a child, I

I am not Trayvon Martin. Neither is my little cousin with me here at Christmas dinner. As a child, I was never targeted or criminalized based on the color of my skin. In school, I was never subjected to disciplinary measures such as suspension (even if I broke the rules) or treated with suspicion by the school’s mostly white teachers and administrators. I was assumed to be a “bright” kid and treated like I was “going places” even by adults who barely knew me. My 9 year old cousin, a fierce and outgoing girl, is treated very similarly.    As a woman and a queer, I struggle- struggle to be taken seriously, to be valued and acknowledged like my male peers, to be heard and seen.  But I, like the other white folks in family, will never be targeted by people like George Zimmerman. We will never be predated on by police or railroaded into prisons by the courts. Our resume will never be overlooked because someone thinks we have a “ghetto” name. If someone walked up and murdered us on the street, Fox News would see us as victims, not “delinquents”. I am so sorry to Trayvon Martin and his family, to Ashley Williams and her family, to Troy Davis and his family, to Marissa Alexander and her family, to Emmett Till and his family, to the four little girls murdered in Birmingham in 1963. And I believe we can -and must- make the insanity of racism come to an end.   -- source link
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