Kyle Rittenhouse’s ‘Not Guilty’ Verdict is Divisive

Samantha
3 min readNov 20, 2021

When my tribe, ADOS, yell out for reparations, whether it be in-person, on TV or social media, I see Congress or some white person say, “Reparations for Black people is divisive!”

But, what is “divisive” to me, as a Black woman, is watching white people enjoy a different experience in America when it comes to, well, everything.

From statistics proving that Black people are arrested more compared to white people when both are committing the same crimes to watching a*shats like Rittenhouse, George Zimmerman and almost every white cop walk away scot-free after shooting and killing an American citizen.

See, what White Supremacists and the rest of America may not understand is that there is a new day and storm brewing underneath. Black people are watching the injustice of America play out on our computers and our smartphones. Things that were hidden and once cloaked in secrecy are now being shown for the entire world to see.

This isn’t exactly a newsflash, but, it must be said.

America is racist.

It’s weird when I hear people say that “racism” is a notion that is hard to prove. And I consistently will argue that racism is not difficult to prove. Racism seems like it’s difficult to prove because Americans live in a racist society. So…

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Samantha

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