"White" Privilege v. Privileged "Cost-Shifters" ...

Bump:  We're not "all in this together" nationally.  The recent protests have unmasked that.

Economies in the summer states in red and blue mixed regions are opening up. People are breaking what remains of self-imposed "shelter-in-place" directives, catching up with longer-distance relatives and breaking out to see loved ones from across town, or student friends they've been socializing with over zoom.

It's not over, for sure, but we've stopped counting the days indoors, and starting taking more and more "risks" -- shopping for ourselves under the new guidelines, opening up our social circles, getting back to work at places previously forced to close, and taking care of errands that went unmet.

I suspect... aimless as they are, the "protest" gatherings will continue.  Even after Mr. George Floyd is formally eulogized across the country and we wait for the formal defense of the officers in court, and the results of the conflicting autopsy reports...

With multiple cops charged, will science show that the one kneeling on his midsection, on his lungs, actually caused the cardiac arrest and loss of breathing to the dead victim?  Can the prosecutors prove that the knee to the neck was the direct cause of death?

We likely will not see four convictions of police officers.  That is the danger of overcharging, and not accepting the risks of policing that some citizens understand is inherent in the job.  The officers have been fired, their bonds are staggeringly high, four of them have been charged... but in Minneapolis, there is no sign of let up for the protesting.

Target Field
Target Center
Target store on Lake Street
Target, with their Minneapolis headquarters, has been targeted. Nationally. Some say, their decision not to sell staples like milk in their downtown Lake Street store, which would have benefited poorer neighborhood families, was why their building was destroyed.  Who knows.  But... they have work to do, that's for sure.  And I don't just mean the corporate marketing writers who will campaign to make this "all better"...

That's the worry, really.
That the protests, riots, and urban anger will be "prettyed up".  That nothing much will really change.  That the privileged whites and their offspring will benefit with no losses, again, while the nation cleans up economically after the haves and have-nots, who have not yet settled their differences, nor even called an uneasy truce, but are content to let the anger burn out with a few special, set-aside goodies for the black communities they allegedly serve...

No justice
No peace
No more cost-shifting where the black people provide "essential services" to the white elders and children in need of care in the home, while those in the poorer black, hispanic and ethnic communities pick up those social costs.

*Have you visited with your grandmother today?
Asked maybe, who is caring for her, who is paying for her social costs?

If you haven't, grow up, girls?  Maybe it's time you should?  Hire a teenaged babysitter maybe, mask up, and bring your husbands too to visit the family matriarch, who maybe has travelled across the nation to be nearer to "family" and local government resources in her elder age?  "Honor they Mother and Father", even if your own parents never taught you that commandment in their home?

It's never too late to learn... That's white privilege.  Transferring the costs from your own family, the inheritances of your children who -- can we be honest? -- won't need them, onto the taxpayers.  If you are a white young lady who has black caregivers watching your family elders today, for minimal pay, you are part of the problem...

That is white privilege, and transferring costs from your family to the workers in the black community who have their own elders and young children in need of immediate-family care.  Just be honest about your roles too, "young" people of America, growing your own families at the expense of the black communities doing your work today...