[a character looks sad in front of a sad city, under the sunset]
Things aren’t looking great…
It sucks when the state kills people
Wish we could do something about it
[the character is now in front of their TV, showing ICE agents surrounding a bleeding corpse on the floor]
Wait… this time they killed WHITE people
This means it could happen to me too?!
[an angry crowd is demonstrating, holding various signs such as…]
THIS TIME YOU’VE GONE TOO FAR
I DRAW THE LINE HERE
TOLERATE NO MORE
2025-31-12, Keith Porter, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-09-12, Silverio Villegas González, shot and killed by ICE agents
2025-07-28, Jaime Alanis Garcia, shot and killed by ICE agents
27 shootings by ICE in 2025,
8 of which were lethal
31 deaths in ICE custody in 2025
11 deaths in ICE custody in 2024
7 deaths in ICE custody in 2023
3 deaths in ICE custody in 2022
5 deaths in ICE custody in 2021
18 deaths in ICE custody in 2020
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2019
9 deaths in ICE custody in 2028
The white moderate have always been happy to ignore Black and Brown people being brutalized by the government, that’s why MLK warned about them in his letter from Birmingham Jail. It takes bloodied white faces for them to realize fascism is coming for all of us.
Obviously the opinions of fascists don’t matter. They love to watch “race traitors” die. But it’s not like every pro-gun Republican is a race war Helter Skelter gunfucker that wants to mow down all their neighbors. They’re mostly just ordinary people that believe guns are for protection and this is the exact moment they were told guns were supposed to protect us from.
That means that the historical role white people play in the struggle against white supremacist society is as the bodies on the front line. This is when that white privilege can be used to actually help everyone, instead of just helping white people like it always has.