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polpotisevil2 wrote

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I appreciate your response

So, where I grew up the phrase "listen to me/us" was most of the time used as a commanding phrase, and your text of "if people are TELLING..." gave me the impression of hostility. If your actual intent was more along the lines of listen to their opinions, then of course I agree that people should have their opinions heard. And if it was not your intent for "us" to be used as I thought then the story is altogether different. I said I only had one thing to say about this post, and it was based on those two observations.

You, a nonblack person, doing whatever you want in the context of this protest is going to negatively effect its image, and all of the black people in it by extentsion

Is this not in contrast to your statement about diversification of tactics? And painting a group of people with the same brush is one of the very issues at hand here. Surrendering and catering to that viewpoint is just that, surrendering.

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