An insightful assessment of what becomes of so many conversations about race....

[loyalsister]

It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people....

We need to stop arguing with them because, in the end, they aren’t invested like we are. They aren’t paying attention to these stories out of fear for their lives and the lives of their children and spouses; they are only tuned in out of black and brown contempt. This is trivial to them, a contest to see who can be the most smug, condescending and dismissive.

When black people debate these issues, we do so passionately — not always articulately, and often without a whole lot of depth to our arguments — but we always come from a place of genuine frustration, outrage and fear. When most white people debate the very same issues from an opposing stance, they do so from a place of perpetual obtuseness and indifference. Their arguments always seem to boil down to “If it isn’t my experience, it couldn’t possibly be yours.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/07/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-racism-with-white-people/?postshare=2211473246447019&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.436f1b3e1df4

Although I am white, I find myself in these conversations with white people far too often. I have had to give up on the possibility that some of my friends would someday value what black people have to say about the world they live in. It is an especially sad defeat given the hopes I had for real progress in this area when Obama was elected. A friend told me she didn't think we were ready and I poo pooed it. She was absolutely correct.

[Hoyt]

1. There's a reasonTrump's "Make America White Again" campaign is more popular than it should be.

[Solomon]

2. Thank you for posting this.

K&R

[loyalsister]

3. You're welcome

I think it may be most revealing and valuable to white people who are uncomfortable but not quite ready to accept some responsibility for where we are when it comes to racism, and earnestly engage in anti-racist work.