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'We Need You To Listen' -- Exchanging Privilege For Solidarity | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
I’ve been blessed with a handful of teaching moments lately.
Each of them involved a fellow middle-aged, middle class white male activist boasting about his skill in dealing with the Blue Bloc of law enforcement.
Each of them also involved me posing this question: Do you think things would’ve gone as smoothly if you were black?
Each of them offered me, in addition, the opportunity to share an anecdote from Occupy this Book -- a powerful lesson I learned while taking part in an August 2012 demonstration against Carlos Slim. It was called “Occupy Saks.”
(Quick explanation: Carlos Slim is not a James Bond villain, he is one of the world’s wealthiest humans with a fortune amassed by exploiting the poorest of the poor in his native Mexico. He is also the largest shareholder in Saks Fifth Avenue.)
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