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In reply to the discussion: Opinion: Portland's protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they're white spectacle" [View all]chia
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to people of color, and will end up insulting or diminishing the message of the very people for whom I want to be an ally. I've been trying to listen and pay attention to your voices, and it's been a sobering lesson for me to hear your important messages framed in ways I truly hadn't considered because they're about life experiences I haven't encountered. I do believe your white allies have it in our hearts to help but can be clumsy or thoughtless in the way we go about it. I'm trying to learn how not to do that, but can understand, as I've heard it said by more than one Black voice, that it's not up to Black people to explain it to us, some of them are tired of trying to explain it to us, white people need to get busy doing our own work of understanding.