On Racial Slurs, Mimi Groves, Jimmy Galligan, And Arc Digital
I don’t have a huge following, so I won’t act like I am telling you something you don’t know. There was a New York Times piece that caused quite a stir several days ago. The article involved two teenagers — a white girl named Mimi Groves and a biracial teenager named Jimmy Galligan.
I wasn’t going to write about this particular incident, even though I write about racism pretty often. However, I read Nicholas Grossman’s article in Arc Digital and found myself compelled to respond. I also responded on Twitter because I was upset.
There is no doubt in my mind that Grossman has experienced none of the racism that I have — and I felt like his perspective was skewed. I tweeted this out (keep this in mind for later):
What happened between Mimi Groves and Jimmy Galligan? The short version: Galligan decided to use a video of Groves using a racial slur in 2016 against her. She withdrew from the University of Tennessee thanks to pressure from the administration.
