“This is a thing people have been saying for a very long time, and it’s news to a certain segment of America. And those are white people, for the most part.”
about his experience with the police, and how he in 1994 unknowingly spent a counterfeit $20 bill that landed him in jail for the night, and, as he told“The thing about white privilege, is that I went in with expectation that I would be treated fairly,” McCoy said about his arrest, adding there was “no time I feared it would go completely sideways.”
Since he wrote his viral tweet and op-ed, McCoy said he’s received “a couple of calls and emails from people of color that said ‘thank you,’ and that is worth a hundred troll emails and phone calls that I get from racists.” NewsWhip’s Twitter engagement data comes from its database of influential users, which tracks around 350,000 accounts.Forbes
. “It’s a bit difficult for me that [my tweet] is the most-liked and shared on Twitter when sensible people are saying we need to listen to people of color, and it’s my tweet that gets shared—but I hope that’s a consequence of everyone seeing it for what it is, and that it drives conversation.”The term white privilege refers to “inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice,”Oxford Languages.
murder and aiding and abetting charges. Floyd’s death has sparked worldwide outrage and sometimes-violent protests as people of all races and nationalities take to the streets, demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism.
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