Blog Post 8

Nita Mosby Tyler delivers an interesting talk about how to bring about a just world. She suggests that rather than those that are being oppressed be the face of the cause, how about  the oppressors. In her argument she uses her own experience growing up in a segregated world, and how she couldn’t be taught ballet because she was black. She explains that  a white woman had enough love and care in her heart and because of that she was able to have ballet. I don’t in no way mean to discredit her experience or even her ideas throughout the speech but I heavily disagree with the message that she is portraying to the audience. I know that she has the purest of intentions but there is a flaw in her thinking. She says that what if white men or white people in general could be the face or advocate for brown and black people. In today’s society we see how that can be dangerous. Sometimes white people even though seemingly an Ally to our cause can sometimes be our very own oppressors. They understand our oppression so much that they oftentimes use it to instill fear within the oppressed . Case in point Amy Cooper, Amy Cooper was considered a white liberal. Yet earlier this year she called police wrongly on a black man knowing it’s implications and in the time we live in. Socially we cannot allow oppressors to be the face of our case. We don’t live in an idealistic world and although that would be a nice and grand idea, that is not a reality. When we allow our oppressors to be the face of our movements we again allow those that are oppressed in this country whether you are disabled, homosexual or a minority to be silenced once again. So although I appreciate her story and this refreshing take ,I can never subject myself to that because it does not work.Now I’m not saying that white people can’t be allies to the Black Lives Matter community or anything like that.What I’m saying is that they cannot be the face or be so overly involved that they are the center and the main focus because in the end it does more harm than good .