Comfort Over Life

Whenever there are discussions about fighting white supremacy and white privilege, it inevitably circles around to the main hindrance to change — being comfortable. White people favor their comfort to the degree that they will sacrifice the rights and lives of anyone so long as they can remain comfortable. Now is this part and parcel of white people — yes.

However, for those of us raised in colonized countries or even influenced by the hype of “white society”, we all favor our comfort over someone’s life.

It’s a hard truth and painful to admit but it is still truth. This “white comfort” we participate in to impacts marginalized groups and increases the longevity of white supremacy and privilege.

Don’t believe it. Let’s look at a couple of companies you’ve likely heard of that need to change, and we still support them or know people who support them. This will be the equivalent of that conversation about race with white people i.e. “white comfort”.

You may get defensive. You may justify why you are favoring your comfort. But this is not an attack. It is an observation.

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