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JIGGY Mag - 1. Through My Eyes

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Let‟s imagine my hypothetical, alternate world:<br />

I want a Black police officer or any POC to shoot a good<br />

man, a family man, an honest man, a WHITE man. I want<br />

this to happen a lot. I want to hear about this every<br />

week. I want to read retweets on Twitter and see angry<br />

posts on Facebook. I want the newspapers to print<br />

screenshots of CCTV footage. I want the media to corrupt<br />

an innocent man. I want social media to share the<br />

footage of these shootings; I want it to trend<br />

worldwide. I want there to be a #WHITELIVESMATTER and<br />

campaigns and protests across the globe. I want to see<br />

white families reduced to tears in press conferences. I want<br />

white people to come to resent the blindness and<br />

INJUSTICE that exists in their world. I want those who<br />

support this movement to feel as powerless and<br />

defenceless as the MILLIONS of POCs who feel unsafe in<br />

their own neighbourhoods, who are seemingly hunted<br />

as prey to a predatory and unjust system, who are<br />

picked off as carelessly as rats, who don‟t get the<br />

justice they deserve, who don‟t get the representation<br />

they need, who don't get the opportunity to impact<br />

change, who don‟t get listened to because people are<br />

now so desensitized to the killing of Black people.<br />

I want nothing more but for the tables to be turned and<br />

see how quickly things change.<br />

EMPATHY IS EFFECUTAL

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