the evolution of a charge: from white privilege to white supremacist

[jeff47]

47. I moved from a place where the schools were awful.

That area is vast majority white. "Rust belt" area where all the manufacturing jobs have literally been sent to China. The only people left there are either 1) working at the base where I was working, or 2) the children who grew up in that city who were unable to escape.

Where I live now, the county next door has bad schools. Thanks to the remnants of segregation, that county is almost entirely white.

The majority black county in the other direction? (Yet more remnants of segregation) Schools are better. Not as good as the county I'm in, because that black county has less money.

Sometimes, it's not a dogwhistle. Sometimes, it really is poverty. And sometimes, it is a dogwhistle.

Many people of color perceive the admonitions "now isn't the time," "BLM is shooting themselves in the foot," etc., etc. as white people feeling entitled to set the narrative.

And sometimes allies are saying "You say you are trying to reach people like me. What you're doing is turning away people like me."

If you want to "get through" to some group of people, honest feedback is helpful in tuning your message. It lowers the mountain you are trying to climb.

And not all feedback is honest. Sometimes the person just doesn't like being challenged. But that doesn't mean all people giving feedback dislike being challenged.

And sometimes, you just have to piss everyone off to get sufficient attention.

Human societies are not simple "black and white" constructs. There is never one "correct" way to do anything. Very few people actually fit neatly into the boxes we are desperately shoving them into.