Some think we Blacks have actually gotten more than our due, like we have it easier than them because of antidiscrimination laws in employment, housing, and education. They call our efforts at linguistic inclusion and kindness “political correctness.” And they’re not about to accept a linguistic phrase—Black Lives Matter—that suggests that we need even more rights. That’s how they see it. When in fact:
1. For the group whose historical and unexamined privilege is slowly eroding, the increasing equality of others can feel like oppression.
2. Black kids get shot by police and white kids get warnings. To pretend otherwise is to willingly not see.