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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a white person who will be playing a support role in a march later today. Honestly people who write these lists have to keep it super simple and direct because [b]white people will want to argue, negotiate, and "but what if" their way into positions of authority at every turn.[/b] In the training for the march I'll be part of the practical suggestions were-if you see a Black youth doing something you think will be dangerous to them or others, you alert organizers by text that you need a Black elder to step in and have that conversation. If you think the march should be going this way but not that or people should be shouting this but not that, too bad, you did not organize this and your role is to support. If you feel like things are totally off the rails, then back away and go home. My role is to support leadership and provide a buffer from police, if I don't feel comfortable with that then on one is making me be at the protest.[/quote]

You lost me at your second sentence.  [/quote]

Really, you see no problem with committed black organizers planning a protest, setting out the routes/rules/goals and then having a random white woman start arguing with them that her "All Lives Matter" poster is perfectly appropriate, that they are losing the mainstream by using chants with curses in them, that it would be way better to go and shut down the highway rather than just march to the statehouse. These are all examples that I know of personally and are why these lists exist. [/quote]

That's not what I said, but you do you.  The solution is quite simple to this mass problem you've personally observed: thank the person for their interest in your cause and tell them you've got it covered.  Just like you would anyone who gives you unsolicited advice.  [/quote]

Fair enough, do you want to elaborate what you meant by losing me at the 2nd sentence because I don't understand why you find that sentence unacceptable or incorrect.[/quote]

Sure, as soon as you painted all white people with one brush you demonstrated that you're no better than those you're protesting against.  [/quote]

To be fair, there’s no evidence the author of the list kneeled on anyone’s neck for 9 minutes, so... [/quote]

You do appreciate that's a complete non sequitor, right?[/quote]

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