White ally here asking for an opinion on the BLM/Sanders protests.

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41. Agreed.

I appreciate your being much more eloquent on the subject and helping me hone the lens with which I view my racial education.

I wonder if the language Dr. Harding used was directed at his often white audiences in a way which might make them the most empathetic. I think that was a tactic King and the SCL crowd employed, which has perhaps backfired over the last 50 years by implicitly teaching whites to be colorblind - or at least, to think of themselves as being so, rather than facing their (our, my) own racism.

Just to be clear, I think colorblindness is total BS, since if you don't "see" a person's color, you're not really looking at that person at all. The only thing I know for sure is that I will never, ever know what it's like to be a POC in America. I still strive to get some clue about it. Thanks for entering into dialogue with me.