Response to “You didn’t make good choices. You had good choices”

I think that this quote is especially relevant now because it is one that could be put in the argument of race. Most of the time white people will have “better options”. They’re more likely to get promoted, more likely to not be killed because of their race, they’re innocent until proven guilty, yet when we talk about black people it is always guilty until proven innocent and they’re seen as a lesser race. Not by everyone of course, yet it is not taught to not have racial preferences and that is where problems occur. In the scene, Elena says that she would never bring race into their argument. This is because she has never experienced racism, she may have experienced struggles but those struggles will never have come from a racially charged motive. For her to not recognise the struggles of what Mia will probably have gone through her entire life is ignorant and rude. Not seeing colour isn’t effective when it comes to situations like this, one must see colour to truly understand how it affects our society and how we can fix the problem. I know for a fact that I am privileged as I have had a stable income in my family my entire life, I have always had things such as an education or a roof over my head and water running. Not everyone has this, so it’s people’s jobs to figure out how to help others, not seeing colour doesn’t help, saying things like “all lives matter” doesn’t help, ignorance doesn’t help. We can no longer be oblivious to what is happening around the world.

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