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\"Phone\"<\/a>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

What are the odds that the day I posted this summary of the Floyd tweet,  Cher would get embroiled in another<\/em> Twitter-snafu (another Twitterfu)?? All you have to do now is google "Cher apologizes" and there you get:<\/p>\n

Cher apologizes for confusing Sinema, Gillibrand<\/a> (The Hill)<\/p>\n

Same<\/a> (CNN)<\/p>\n

You kind of think maybe Cher should run all tweets by someone and then you think, nah, this is better. Uncensored Cher is a better thing.<\/p>\n

\n

So it\u2019s time to blog about this year\u2019s Cher twitter controversy (or this season\u2019s maybe). I've been putting this off until I could get my thoughts written out. And I was worried I wouldn\u2019t get it right. But this fear of saying the wrong thing can't shut the conversation down so here we go…<\/p>\n

As a reminder, here are some of the stories about the tweet that broke Twitter:<\/p>\n

Cher divides Twitter wondering if she could\u2019ve prevented George Floyd\u2019s death: \u2018Maybe if I\u2019d been there… I could\u2019ve helped<\/a>\u2019 <\/p>\n

Cher apologizes for 'not appropriate' George Floyd tweet<\/a> <\/p>\n

And this rough read for a Cher fan: Cher\u2019s George Floyd tweet of white fantasy is part of a dangerous pathology<\/a> <\/p>\n

During the murder trail of police officer Derek Chauvin, lots of people around the world were expressing horror at the details of George Floyd's gruesome death. Cher herself said this: "Maybe If I'd Been There,…I Could've Helped." Some tweeters (both white and people of color) defended Cher and others expressed disgust and annoyance. Some examples on both sides:<\/p>\n

\u201cOh yay another White person centering themselves around blk ppls pain. I wish I was there to stop you from tweeting this.\u201d (@Iconiecon)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I Could Turn Back Time, I would stop Cher from tweeting this.\u201d ( @geeta_minocha)<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean \u2014 maybe she could\u2019ve helped. We\u2019ll never know. Lots of us wish we could\u2019ve done something to change the outcome. Lots of things to be mad about but this tweet ain\u2019t it.\u201d (@flywithkamala)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe could have worded it differently but I think her intentions were true. She wishes she could have helped. She\u2019s an ally. People need to let this one go.\u201d (@CDonatac)<\/p>\n

As part of the turmoil going on last year, the company I consult for provided us with free LinkedIn inclusivity training. One of the people who really impressed me was corporate trainer Mary-Frances Winters and so I bought her book Inclusive Conversations<\/a>,<\/em> which I\u2019m still in the middle of reading. Anyway, she talks about being an ally for your co-workers who feel marginalized and she says being an advocate as a white person means more than silently supporting them, but actually speaking out on their behalf, among other things. And for this to happen, we all have to create a safe space and have patience when people make mistakes while speaking out. If not, advocates won\u2019t speak out and our friends will feel completely or inadequately supported. Allies can't be too afraid to say something wrong.<\/p>\n

I feel Cher has always been an objectively strong ally, albeit an imperfect one. She has always braved the trolls on Twitter and spoke out for communities in distress. She makes mistakes yeah. Unfortunately on Twitter, groups on the extreme right and left have a zero-tolerance outlook that makes allyship particularly harrowing. It\u2019s to Cher\u2019s credit that she hasn\u2019t stopped for long. She just apologizes and perseveres.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say white savior syndrome isn\u2019t a real thing. Just watch some well-meaning white suburbanites descend on an inner-city school with a list of sure fixes, with no comprehension of the experience of poverty or diverging cultural factors. White saviorism is a thing. It needs to be checked. But there are worse things. Much worse things.<\/p>\n

This is also not to say celebrity narcissism isn\u2019t a real thing. Cher has admitted her own narcissistic tendencies and I for one believe she does better in this area than many other celebrities of her stature and iconic, practically mythmaking, category. She was just cast as God in a Pink video. For the love of…<\/p>\n

And some of that was probably all in that tweet. But it\u2019s not all white savior celebrity narcissism. They way we can tell is to replace George Floyd in the tweet with an Armenian or a white woman who was murdered. Although this isn't as likely and this scenario is not part of the national crisis, it does happen and we can explore the whole tweetstorm again in this light. <\/p>\n

There is this very human element in play, one not based on race, gender or orientation, a human ideal we\u2019ve all had in the fantasy crisis of our own mythmaking minds, this absolutely firm belief, especially strong when we were young adults, that we will be the kind of person to help a person on the street, a person who would stop for an accident on the road, someone who would rescue all the lost dogs in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

But then decades roll by and you see all the accidents, street dramas and wandering dogs you didn\u2019t help. There are reasons: you once heard a story about that guy who got shot helping a stranded motorist, maybe the dog isn\u2019t lost by a free-roamer, and are you going to get yourself killed doing this Good Samaritan thing? The mind scrambles with doubt when the situations actually present themselves. The hard, cold fact of life is that enough of us don\u2019t stop. We all feel this commitment to stopping but stopping isn\u2019t easy. We need to learn to do this. Bravery needs to be modeled and learned, the same sad way we\u2019re now learning to throw our cell phones at madmen in Active Shooter training.<\/p>\n

So I greatly sympathize with Cher\u2019s impulse in the tweet, which ultimately all feels sadly human and heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

It goes all the way back to our response to tragic fairy tales like Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s \u201cLittle Match Girl.\u201d Surely this girl would not have frozen to death under our feet. I used the Anderson story to process this whole situation in a poem for NaPoWriMo 2021: marymccray.com\/napowrimo-2021-by-mary-mccray.html#april7<\/a><\/p>\n

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