If you claim
All Lives Matter
you fail to realise
we’re talking Black Lives.
If you hire a guy
when any gender would do
you reinforce
the glass ceiling.
If you continue carding
and stop collecting racial data
you preserve
White Privilege.
If you accept a restroom for men
and a restroom for women
you uphold
the gender binary.
Social blindness
isn’t a sickness.
It’s a choice.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
