Page 61 - 2021-bfw-shea-all-2e

To acknowledge the existence of the bully 20 plan for getting there, as opposed to devising a 5
and his accompanying risks is not the same as strategy centered on opposition.
accepting him as a permanent feature of our Still, there may yet be a general blueprint for
world. I know that if we accept trauma and fear, beating the bully. He is effective on the street central text
it wins. because he knows the street. He knows which
Bullies don’t just go away. Their legacies neighbors turn a blind eye. He knows what /
don’t just disappear. The bully must be sections of the street have the lowest traffic and
confronted intentionally, his impact named and are farthest from the objecting gaze of
addressed. Even so, it seems there’s no clear concerned neighbors. The bully picks his spots. DeRay Mckesson
consensus on how to deal with the bully on our So we need to identify and name the things that
blocks. Do we confront him? Match violence enable him, in order to address them head-on
with violence? Do we ignore him, or try to kill and remove them from the playing field. Then
him with kindness? I don’t think there’s a silver we need to expose the bully and all the ways he
bullet to handling the bully, no one-size-fits-all is able to perpetrate his actions, stripping him of
strategy. But the right strategy has to be rooted the agency that he seeks to strip from us.
in a context bigger than the immediate one, has We need to remind the peers of the bully
to be rooted in more than aiming to end the that they benefit from bullying even if they are
presence of the bully himself. We must focus on not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they
the type of world we want to live in and devise a benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it.

Charles Moore/Getty Images

This is Bull Connor, the Commissioner of Public Safety in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights
Movement.
Mckesson says that we can recognize in Bull Connor the bully of white supremacy. How does this
photo depict Bull Connor as a bully and as a symbol of the oppressive force of white supremacy?

45
Copyright © Bedford/St. Martin’s. Uncorrected proofs have been used in this sample chapter.
Distributed by BFW Publishers. Strictly for use with its products. Not for redistribution.

sheaall2e_24428_ch05_002_095.indd 45 09/07/20 5:30 PM