“We want someone who will acknowledge that racism is why black people have faced such dire economic straits.”

You may think of blacks as a monolithic group so predictable that you can comfortably speak for them but I do not. I guess your thinking is that since you are a member of the group, you know the entirety of that group’s experience; You “know the black experience.”

It conveniently stages the argument so that only a black person can speak for blacks and since white people don’t “know the black experience” they must sit quietly and agree. This is what activist like you call a discussion.

Your implication that black people are incapable of solving their own dire economic straights unless whitey stops being racist is itself a racist statement. Or did you mean it is racists like you, who promote the idea that blacks have an inherent inability to overcome these dire economic straits, that are the problem? If so, my apologies; perhaps we agree.