Caro || Issue 2
In this issue: more music, a style editorial (Adventures of a Girl in the World) and Resources on Michael Brown/Ferguson. -- caro is a perzine in the truest sense: a public journal, an outlet, and a voice.
In this issue: more music, a style editorial (Adventures of a Girl in the World) and Resources on Michael Brown/Ferguson. -- caro is a perzine in the truest sense: a public journal, an outlet, and a voice.
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5<br />
the worst) whose arguments in defense of Darren<br />
Wilson, the Ferguson PD, and the St. Louis County<br />
Sheriff Dept. reveal a frightening lack of empathy,<br />
sympathy, and compassion. My heart clenches at<br />
the realization that even people I thought I knew<br />
don’t really see me as a person with inalienable<br />
rights, or if they do, they have to divorce my race<br />
and ethnicity from their perception of me to do so<br />
(which says that they don’t see Black people in<br />
general as people and reveals the problem with<br />
“colorblind” ideology).<br />
Just hearing the justifications for not dealing<br />
with institutional racism makes me sick at heart<br />
and seeing them post fucking puppy videos or sad<br />
farewells to dead actors and comedians while ignoring<br />
the murder on America’s front doorstep<br />
wounds my soul, bringing to mind the phrase<br />
“death by thousand cuts”. I wonder what they<br />
would do if it was my father, brother, or cousin who<br />
had been killed. But racial reconciliation is<br />
“important” to them. Needless to say a lot of people<br />
have been cut out of my life. I can’t pretend<br />
that I have the answers here, but I hope this issue<br />
of caro frames these questions and my experiences<br />
in way that add to the discussion to find solutions<br />
for the pain my people continue to endure.
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