Love the truth you speak here. I'm multiracial. My dad's Black. My mother was White. You can't tell by looking at me. I've benefitted from that, no dobut. My brothers and sisters have not.

That said, all this hyperbolic, virtue signalling to me is nothing more than a shitload of noise crowing out the real issues. Wanna fix it, stop trying to prove you're the most woke person in the world and sit down and have a conversation with the people you so want to claim to empathise with. Maybe hear the voices of the Black community, what they want, what they need, their struggles. Straight talk because what we have now isn't problem solving, it's well, it's exactly what you said, ritualistic self-flagellation.

I can't speak for my brothers and sisters. Although I share a Black father with them, I've never been followed around a store (unless I was with them), I've never had to fear for the safety of my sons ever single day they leave the house. I've never been pulled over for driving while Black. I live in a strange middle ground where I get the benefit of looking white while also being eligible for benefits associated with affirmative action type initiatives due to my parentage...shit, now you've got me thinking about a story of my own.

I've gone on too long. My point was, if change is really what they want, it's high time to sit down and have to uncomfortable conversations. Personally, I don't want to beat up some white woman over her 6th great grandfather owning slaves. I know that's not her. But I want her to listen to my story about my 6th great grandfather that ran from slavery at 15 and how generation trauma and racisim has impacted members of my family every single day of life since then.