Let’s examine what you just did: you took someone’s legitimate perspective and said: “nope, that’s not reality. However, look: mine is!”

Tell me, how different was it for you to type “your words of truth” versus this author writing hers’? As a third party, I look beyond the words and seek the intent. Clearly this author has been hurt, as millions of others around the world…and in trying to unify, shared what helps destroy racism and what can be done by those who care. Sounds like a positive message to me. Yours? Not so much….

Now you could have continued living in YOUR “racism free” world, unhurt, unbothered by some reality you feel concocted by thousands of us. You could have stopped reading by line two, fully aware this content doesn’t even begin to align with your world. I’m not sure you fully read it, and I don’t really care. But why not just move on in your beautiful world where racism doesn’t exist and continue to live in such joy and then write about such amazing realities that clearly we are missing out on?

But what angers me about your insensitive, condescending, disrespectful comment is that you felt the urge to say: I’m a black man. So, THAT meant—you have the right, not the white, but you—to tell another black person, they’re experience is inauthentic. Sometimes I feel fellow minorities as yourself are even worse than the blatantly open racists. At least we know the battle when we meet a racist. But individuals like you who even deny there’s a problem, when I have no doubt you’ve witnessed racism but were totally clueless about it—make the battle even uglier.

Weak-minded humans are those who feel the need to put others down in order to feel stronger themselves. Human progress and growth in different facets of life, doesn’t mean we haven’t made great strides. However, it takes courage, love, empathy and great strength to look dead-straight into the eye of a problem and say: we can do better. This author is contributing to the solution. She not only fully understands the sacrifice of LIVES that have been giving by great human beings for years to get to where we are. She honors their fight, their resilience, their fortitude for what many of us are enjoying this very minute.

The fact that she and many of us continue to bear witness to the ugliest racists acts and speak up about it only uplifts me to know: yes, we can obliterate racism one day at a time.

And one thing you implied is true: racism toward anyone can surely be done by any skin color (white to black, white to white, black to white, black to black, Latino to black, black to Asian, etc….). Watch your words—even those are destructive.