Something I should say more often

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You keep saying the movement is exclusive, but that doesn't mesh with the pictures and videos from all over the country (and world) of protests filled with people of all colors, and a significant amount of white people are included in those protests.

How is it they're being included and you're not?


Did you watch the video I posted at the start of this conversation?

Have you looked for voices that are actively trying to include you (and me)?


If you're not aware that your opinion is common and has been heard and responded to with positive voices, here's a series of links which were presented below that WheezyWaiter video I posted.


Here's one that speaks to my own bias as a scientist.
Campaign Zero https://www.joincampaignzero.org

Campaign Zero is actively collecting data to better define the problem with concrete facts. It's collecting data on what reforms have been implemented over the past years, and attempts to quantify the efficacy of various reforms to determine which are the most effective ones to invest in.


The exclusion you feel is not representative of the greater movement as a whole. I don't understand why you're letting voices who are clearly delivering a message of (a new implementation of) segregation to obfuscate the greater call for all people to learn the history, learn the facts of the present, and help create a better future.

I'm more a supporter of the movement as designed by black thinkers, which existed long before BLM. The contemporary tool of the movement, BLM, leaves much to be desired.

But I am down as hell with the black liberation movement. That shit ain't about "equal treatment", like people think BLM is about. It's about the progeny of enslaved Africans being free from the law and power system created by the slavers. They were forced against their will into this system, and that's why their movement is legitimate.

I am so so so down with that. They're right and it's hugely libertarian. And I ALSO want to point out that I too am forced against my will into this system too. The system in some ways treats us different, but that's no reason to say my freedom from the system is not important.

Black liberation is right. They're forced against their will into legal and power structure that does not represent them.

I'm forced against my will into a legal and power structure that doesn't represent me too. I want in on black liberation. But as long as it remains about black liberation instead of human liberation, I can't be a part of it. And millions will fight against it when they would otherwise embrace it.