White people don't want to talk about it

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485. I don't see anyone denying your experience.

What is your experience as a minority? Are you Mexican? Are you Jewish? and what do you look like? Are you mestizo?

The last point is relevant because HOW you look can result a great deal in your treatment. My ex-girlfriend, Jewish, Ashkenazi background, would tan very dark in the summertime, and we would get suspicious looks as we crossed the border back from Tijuana. She looked Mexican, but had no connection to Mexico.

People of color have radically different experiences based on their race, ethnicity, how they actually look, where they live, and when they are there. Though you declare yourself a PoC, I have no clarity as to what that racial heritage is. I doubt that you have any special insight into the lives of African-Americans through your own personal experience, because your life was probably quite different, as your race and ethnicity is different.

You may have developed a certain amount of insight through your career as a journalist, but I certainly am not seeing the lived experience. Show me how I am wrong.