The Unbearable Whiteness of the American Left

[Squinch]

351. Good for you!

Now here's a couple more things you can do:

1. Read what they are saying. School your mind to admit the possibility that their impressions about their experiences are more accurate than your or my impressions because we are people who have never experienced endemic racism.

2. You state that you feel you are being shut out of a conversation. What you are being told in this thread, and what can easily be documented, is that people of color are shut out of conversations in every corner of their lives. You are being shut out of a conversation on a message board. This is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things, and yet clearly you are bothered by it. They are shut out of conversations that have high stakes, like lifetime income, safety of their children, equality of opportunity, equality under the law. Try and wrap your head around that.

Once you do those things, I am sure you will have plenty of very valuable things to say.