Re: Walk-out by Congressional staffers in protest of non-indictment

[daredtowork]

7. There are mixed messages on this

When white people do show their support, there is fear that they will forget that the focus is on black issues and that they will try to wrest the megaphone from black leaders. Black movements don't need White Saviors.

But if white support doesn't show up, it looks like that support doesn't exist.

In regard to your last sentence, I wrote a post earlier today about how the unrest in Berkeley might be a case of "until white people started being targeted". West Berkeley has been undergoing gentrification (and being sapped of color) for over a decade. But it's only now that the problem has reached the white residents that there is serious "concern" and "unrest" over gentrification. My conclusion was Berkeley is a place where Black Lives Should Have Mattered Long Ago.