When it comes to what's best for Black People, it's time for White People to mind their business

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204. I live in very poor, rural upstate NY, and while I know the white poor have advantages

that black people don't have, they are certainly not "advantaged." They can't feed their kids when food stamps run out, they can't afford oil with 1/2 the winter to go.

And as a white woman to be told to shut up about civil rights - no, I won't. A lot of the wealthier rural whites in the tourist area where I work are racist as hell and I continually call them out on it. I can do that. When the one black student in my school district tries to call them out, he is treated like shit. I can do things BECAUSE of my white person privilege, which I think is terrible in and of itself, that this young man can't do. So I do it, because I feel that if I have an unfair privilege, it is my moral obligation to use it in a way that is helpful, and not harmful.