*Jae Hardwick, the white wife of actor Omari Hardwick, took to Instagram to call on her fellow caucazoids to show solidarity in support of bringing the killers of Ahmaud Arbery to justice.
Arbery is the 25-year-old Georgia man who was gunned down earlier this year by two suspected white supremacists near his hometown in Brunswick, Ga. He was unarmed when he was fatally shot in the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23.
Travis McMichael, 34, and his father, Gregory, 64, a retired cop, had seen Arbery running in the area and decided to arm themselves, chase him down in a pickup truck and kill him.
According to published reports, Travis and Gregory followed Ahmaud and demanded that he stop and talk to them, believing him to be a burglary suspect. At some point, they got out of their truck, confronted him and after a struggle over the shotgun with Travis, Arbery was shot at least twice and killed.
State officials seemed to pave the way for the father and son to escape charges but after a video was posted online last week showing the moment Ahmaud was fatally shot, both Travis and Gregory were arrested and charged May 7 with murder and aggravated assault.
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As noted by thejasminebrand.com, Jae captioned her 3-minute black and white video: “To my white people who want to help” and began her commentary by saying:
“Mind you, this is directed to my white followers, my white friends, my white family members. If you will feel better when you return home after doing your 2.23 miles, don’t do it. Don’t do it. You are not helping the problem. What you’re doing is you’re soothing your own soul. You are feeling as if you are part of something. As if you are supporting something. But what you can do to actually be part of the solution is, is not to soothe your soul but to allow it to become outraged. This young king was not killed because he went jogging. He was killed because he went jogging in America while he was black and was confronted by racists.”
She went on to explain the obvious for all the slow folks at the back of the bus…that there is the America for white supremacists and their bootlicks and the America for those who lack complexion protection.
“See there’s two different Americas y’all. Been saying it for a while. I’ve said it in my stories and by the way, I’ve said it in my posts and when I do, just so you guys know, I get a lot of sh*t in my DMs from racist people. But it’s never gonna stop me from saying it. There’s two different Americas: there’s one if you are white and there’s one if you are every other minority in America, especially if you are black or brown. If you are not willing as a white person to confront racism in your neighborhood, at your workplace, in your friend group, or in your own family, you are part of the problem, okay? Again, stop looking for ways to make yourself feel better and start looking for ways to make the situation better.”
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Hardwick wants white folks to do more to bring more attention to injustices against Blacks in America.
“Confront racism. Use your voice. Here’s the other thing: I hate when I hear someone say ‘to be a voice to the voiceless.’ You are not a voice for the voiceless. Every minority in America has a voice. A voice that is being used strongly and loudly for centuries. The problem is they’ve had to use their voice strongly and loudly for centuries because of the amount and level of atrocities that’s been done to them that their voice now has become familiar to our government, to our corporations, to our police forces. Your voice is not familiar. Your face as a white person is not familiar. YOU take up the fight. YOU use your white voice, your white face, your white privilege to speak up to yell racism, to yell inequality from the f**king rooftop. That is your job. That is what you can do.”
She ended her video by encouraging whites to be okay with being uncomfortable when it comes to discussing race and injustice.
“Shelve the run. Shelve the bike ride. That’s gonna make you feel warm and fuzzy, okay? And do something. Do something that puts you in a position of being uncomfortable, okay? ‘Cause walking around as a minority in America I’m sure is pretty f**king uncomfortable on a lot of days. Worrying about your son’s safety, your husband, your cousin, your father’s, your neighbor’s safety because of their skin color and they live in America is uncomfortable. Take on some, some discomfort. Have the conversations. Confront the racists and racisms and inequalities that you see in your life. That’s where you start, white people. That’s what you do. You don’t go for a run to make yourself feel better.”
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