Thank you Thom Hartman for your perspective on the Marissa Johnson diatribe

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182. I too am an admirer of Bravenak and I have express my admiration for her to her

However, I don't feel that I have to prove my commitment to change- to any individual or organization that I currently feel is strongly rooted in hate or those that support that organization here at DU.

Ms Johnson stood up at the podium that night and accused everyone in that audience of being white supremacists. Then a few of the people here at DU picked up that mantle and applied it to every white liberal person here.

I've admitted in the past in posts here that as a white person- I've taken advantage of my white privilege. I can even admit that I may still harbor bigoted views in some areas of my thinking. What I can also tell people though is; I try to recognize it when I see it in myself and work to eliminate in my life. I also tend to think that in our quest to becoming better human beings, inner struggle with right and wrong is a life long struggle.

I'm not perfect and I can admit it. Other's here- not so much. Instead- they're trying desperately to convince POC here that they have eliminated their prejudices and biases and their bigoted views by agreeing with everything any person of color writes about Ms Johnson and BLM.

Ms. Johnson is wrong, people's reaction to her scribe that night did not expose thems as closeted liberal white supremacists, but it did expose some of the bigoted attitudes that some liberals still harbor and may want to consider spending time reflecting on.

Everyone contributes to the social hierarchy and the racism that has resulted from that hierarchy in this country- even the victims of it. Those who would deny it- don't themselves understand what racism is and why it exists.