Damon Young — a senior editor for The Root, a black-focused news and culture site — penned a piece declaring that the viral video of a man saving a rabbit from the raging California wildfires “captures everything wrong with whiteness in 30 seconds.”
Young — also a GQ columnist — told his readers that the headline-grabbing act was “maybe the whitest thing I’ve ever seen. And these eyes have seen the pinnacles of whiteness, including a pretzel-and-pepperoni casserole at a holiday potluck when I was a teacher and the peak Appalachian tailgates outside of Heinz Field whenever Kenny Chesney is in town.”
Alongside theories that climate change helped fuel the devastating wildfires, Young added that “colonialism and aggressive industrialism have had an adverse effect on our environment. And I also know that this is a byproduct of manifest destiny — an existential edict ingrained in white people where they believe everything belongs to them.”
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