I don’t need or desire to read about trump in any responses. he is little more than a sign of infection on an open wound. His kind needs to be dealt with for sure, but he is far too small of a person to be a cause of anything, except angst.

Yeah… it is a hard read. Being white i feel guilty by association, wrong by proxy but I can’t discern what I’ve ever personally done to be included in this.

Maybe that’s the point or an artifact of the point.

As much as all of that, it pains me to see what looks to be a widening, aching tear run across this country.

I remember growing up and experiencing racism, as a white only from the outside, I knew it was wrong, was taught that by parents who believed it as did I. I guess in my white mind I Have always thought racism was getting better and while it would be a long slow slog waiting for generations bred on racism to pass (people rarely change enroute) it would eventually come to pass and What was required of me, and for most of us really was just to treat everyone alike. Like a lot of people I was proud when Barrack Obama was elected, not because I thought racism was over but because here was proof that we’d made progress at least. Here was a true leader of men, articulate, thoughtful, educated and completely engaged. This was progress and a leader all in one.

But the last couple of years have been like this aftershock, or a secondary wave of the consequences of racism sweeping across this country and honestly it has caught me off guard. Its frustrating too because i am told by some at least that I can’t really understand racism because I’ve never lived it and I have to believe them to some extent because while I honestly believe black lives matter I cringe at the thought of a white lives matter group. I can feel that it is culturally wrong, but I don’t fully understand why. In my mind the solution seems to be that yes…lets agree that all lives matter and work on that. Apparently that doesn’t work either.

So please someone, take what I intend to be an honest if naive or ignorant attempt to understand the path forward and explain it to me, as you see it. How do we, you and I fix this? Can we?

I appreciate your thoughts and your respect in your response.

Keep in mind that whatever you may think of me personally, I’m guessing that there are millions more like me, very different In the details for sure, but coming from the same place.

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