I don’t see how understanding the scapegoating platform is automatically anti-Black. Simply understanding a viewpoint doesn’t signify agreement, compliance, or a sense of anti-anything except close-mindedness. The fact that I can understand where some people are coming from only indicates that I am able to see their frustrations and validate them.

I do agree with your second point in that not convicting Peter Liang just because everyone else wasn’t is in a way supporting police brutality, which is not what I am saying at all. What I am saying is that there’s no winning for America between convicting an officer in this one instance and once again allowing this to happen without penalty, hence why this is an issue that shouldn’t even have to exist. It’s difficult to defend only convicting Peter Liang but also impossible to defend letting him off the hook, which puts America in an impossible place: a hole that we have dug ourselves.

The white-black binary is something I can see as being a result of white supremacist ideology, but I am apt to attribute this exclusion to more than one thing. We can’t just point at the white community and say it’s their fault other people of color are not being heard or validated. At this point, other ideologies and factors play a role, including the American culture we have cultivated over time and the meticulous one-at-a-time mindset many people have. Yes white supremacist thinking fuels this binary, as does the opposite ideology. And it shouldn’t be a pissing contest to see who deserves America’s attention. We should be inclusive in our efforts toward human rights.

Your point about minorities against one another is deeply troubling and something the Peter Liang case brings up. It shouldn’t be minority vs minority. It should be minorities helping minorities have equal representation compared to the majority. The whole me against you against everyone else is this tribal American culture creating a hostile atmosphere. We shouldn’t be a nation built around tribes and a hierarchy of tribes, and showing empathy for a minority group isn’t against equal rights or equal representation.