Look The Other Way

To people who have time to say negative things to say about marginalized people:

Bud, just keep scrolling, or keep looking the other way.

It’s clearly not that hard for you to do.

You do it when it’s homeless people.

You do it when it’s homeless veterans, even though you brag about donating to the Wounded Warrior Project. Once. Eleven years ago.

You do it when it’s a hungry child in your own community.

You do it when your own kid comes to you to tell you that your boyfriend/girlfriend hit them or slapped them.

You do it when it you neglect your own needs out of a selfish desire to drag other people down with you.

Just keep looking away, though. It’s what you’re good at.

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Sally Garnatah writes silly things. Some of Sally’s stories are true. For legal purposes, consider all of these posts to be … autofiction, if you can stomach that kind of quasi-pretentious literary stuff. Sally doesn’t read autofiction, though. She’s too much of a country girl. You can find her down by the Tennessee River, out in the woods, standing in a sorghum field — or you can find her right here, on her blog.

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