Hey, folks. It's Michael Bach, your Diversity Dude, and this is Monday Morning Musings.
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So, happy Monday, folks!
I hope this finds you well.
A little better than I was last Monday.
It has been a...
I mean, it was a wild week.
Lots of emotions and
you know, so pleased to see that those three other officers have been charged in the murder of George Floyd.
And there's so much evidence, I hope they're quick to trial.
I hope that they're convicted and I hope that we as a society don't forget the name of George Floyd
and that we don't just move onto the next glitzy thing that's going to come our way on social media.
But I wanted to just briefly talk about something a little happier.
I have been binge watching, as everyone has,
and came across a series on Netflix called "Hollywood" by Ryan Murphy.
Big fan of Ryan Murphy's.
And it's a mini-series, it's a star-studded cast,
but it follows a group of actors and writers and people aspiring to get in the Hollywood game in late 1940s,
and it kind of turns it, turns everything on its head,
and it shows a movie made starring an African-American woman in a lead role,
not playing a servant but playing a romantic lead in a relationship with a white man,
and it is written by a young man who is Black and gay, and it wins Oscars,
and the writer and his boyfriend, Rock Hudson... yeah... go to the Oscars and hold hands and it's...
You know, it sort of takes what we know to have been the reality of that time
and gives it a slight rewrite of what could've been.
And as I was watching the finale yesterday, and it's a mini-series so I don't think there's going to be any more,
who knows, I don't pay attention...
as I was watching, I thought:
What if?
What if this... if Rock Hudson had been out?
If he'd been able to live a healthy life as an openly-gay man.
What if African-American people had been treated as equals in the 1940s?
Where would we be today?
Would George Floyd have been killed by police?
Breonna Taylor.
Ahmaud Arbery.
That list is very long, so I'll stop there.
Would *I* have come out in a world that embraced who I was when I came out 30 years ago?
So, it's a fantasy.
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That's really what it is.
It's a fantasy.
But it's a nice thought, and I encourage you to watch it and think about what could be.
What could be if we put racialized people into positions of power
and we give them the respect that they deserve?
What could be if we treat trans and other marginalized people respectfully
and don't push them into the corners?
I think with everything that's going on,
maybe this is a nice little bit of escapism to help remember that we *can* change things.
We just have to commit to it.
That's it for me.
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Bye-eeee!
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