'It was no surprise when the 12 Black firefighters who died that day didn’t seem to get the same recognition as the white firefighters who also gave their lives.'
Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox!9/11 was hard on all New Yorkers. For those who lost family members and friends, it was devastating.
An early, blatant example of how Black lives didn’t matter in this tragedy was kicked off by, no surprise, then Mayor Rudy Giuliani. On the highly anticipated post-9/11 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the show opened with Giuliani appearing on the famous stage surrounded by more than two dozen first responders in uniform. Not one was Black. A Black, Brown, yellow, red or female face was nowhere to be found.
On more than one occasion, Martin Luther King said, “The vast majority of white Americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously.” He was right then, and today, 47 years after his murder, his words are still accurate. At best, the racism displayed on the stage of “Saturday Night Live” was the unconscious type, but does it really matter? The end result is the same: Black sacrifice and suffering not being given the same importance as the suffering and sacrifice of whites.
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