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In reply to the discussion: I fully understand that this post is likely to draw very intense personal criticism but, at my age, [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)and lecturing people of color about what the "real" problem is and continuing to ignore us when we tell you otherwise - and calling us "unhinged" when you don't like how we accurately describe what actually occurred.
Frankly, I'm tired of white people telling me they're allies and claiming they understand that racism exists, there are problems in society, blah blah blah - only to insist that THIS situation isn't what we are telling them it is and that we are wrong, or confused, or misguided, or divisive, or "unhinged" when we try to explain how those individual situations stem from, are part of, and feed into the larger systemic racism they claim to believe actually exists but never they never seem to believe exists in real time when it actually occurs.