2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: White Lives Electorally Matter!!! [View all]noamnety
(20,234 posts)"My title is to get attention of something we have been ignoring."
Your title is using black people's struggle for the right to exist to get attention of something that matters to you, the belief that white people's votes are being ignored.
You see it as a harmless play on words, but I think a whole lot of people will see it very differently. It is entirely dismissive of their struggle to say, yeah, sure that's important and all, but how can I use it in a clever fun way now to draw attention to my issue?
When I see that, I shut down - in the same way I would shut down if Bill Clinton tried to become a spokesman for a law protecting women from sexual harassment in the work place. The law could be the best law ever, but I'm not listening to a word he says about it because of where he's starting from.