Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「“One day I was on the StairMaster, doing my thing, when a Black gym employee approached a white guy on the treadmill in front of me and told him to pull his mask back up. He gave her a quick glance, slowly tugged the fabric, then returned his focus to running,” writes HuffPost guest writer Delano Burrowes.⁠ ⁠ “There was something about the look I saw him give her: entitlement. Dismissal. Invisibility. It triggered an overwhelming urge in me to wipe the smugness off his face.”⁠ ⁠ “‘Hey! Didn’t she tell you to put your f**king mask on?’” I was somehow off the StairMaster, standing next to the man, and speaking at a volume I never used.”⁠ ⁠ “I expected, wanted, and needed an apology — for so much. Instead, I got a version of the glance he’d given the employee. I wasn’t about to let it end like that, but then I saw past him to the mirror behind the treadmills. I looked crazy.”⁠ ⁠ “How did I become this person? I asked myself. Yeah, he’s probably an a**hole, but gyms are full of a**holes. So what?”⁠ ⁠ “After the treadmill interaction, I thought about another gym incident, also regarding a mask, a few months before. I was in the weight room when I heard, “‘Hey, bro, can you put your mask over your nose?’”⁠ ⁠ “The Black guy on the butterfly machine looked over at the white guy talking to him. “Nah. I’m good,” he said.”⁠ ⁠ “‘Huh? You do know there’s a pandemic, right?’ the white guy asked.”⁠ ⁠ “It escalated into an adrenaline-fueled argument, and a Black staffer was asked to intervene.”⁠ ⁠ “I knew the conflict going on in the staff member’s head: 'How can I side against another Black person in this space?' They averted their eyes and walked away.”⁠ ⁠ “I had barely talked to the other Black guy in all the years I’d seen him around, but now we looked at each other and slowly nodded.”⁠ ⁠ “Why did I act like that then and now had a completely opposite reaction? It made no sense, except it did.”⁠ ⁠ Read the full essay at our link in bio. // 📷 Courtesy of Jules Arribillaga」10月10日 9時02分