If White Supremacy and Racism Don’t Matter to You, I Question Your Empathy

Sameena Mughal

Oct 2, 2020·3 min read

Your compassion, too.

Protesters at a Rise and Resist Against White Supremacy demonstration inside Grand Central Station

I have come to an uncomfortable truth that I avoided accepting before. White supremacy and racism are not a deal- breaker or even a concern for more Americans than I realized.

2016

During the 2016 election, when Donald Trump called Mexicans rapists, a colleague…