Chris Crawford,
Thank you for the best cringe-worthy, “did you not just read her article and how can you not see yourself in it and dammit it’s times like these where I shrink in horror at your white machismo and all the assumptions you allow yourself regarding someone else’s life especially a BLACK WOMAN and what they have or haven’t done to deal with institutional racism?” moment of 2019!!
Your reference about her article as spewing feckless chatter, within those three words, is the be-all and end-all example of which she is writing. Not only that point, but it's also sexist, condescending, and just wrong on so many levels however I hate typing for too long so it’s time for you to engage in some good ‘ol autodidactic fun. If you are so inclined. For you, a white male who has obviously benefitted from your maleness and white privilege to tell a BLACK WOMAN what she should or shouldn’t be doing, AND, having just read her article, the pompousness of assuming she wants to hear your clueless opinion, well, truly stuns because of the ego it takes to write it.
I would not, could not, or want to speak for Marley K. I speak for all the white folk out in the world trying to make a difference, trying to right the wrongs our race has put upon black people, you know the wrongs of slavery, rape, murder, suppression, inequality, injustice that is happening as I write this…I know you are proud of yourself, feel like you are somehow encouraging Marley K. albeit patronizing as hell, and that you got it all figured out for everyone, but please, for the sake of white people and what little dignity we have left, think before you spew feckless chatter. Thank you for your cooperation regarding our attempt to start the healing, not take us back 50 years.
