Open Letter to Angry Black Women — Stop Labeling Every White Woman a Racist.
Everything I say makes you angry and I don’t understand why.
In the past year of writing on Medium, I have been accused of racism, hidden racial bias, white privilege, and unconscious racial bias by many of Medium’s black women writers and readers. And that’s when I agreed with them. I will also include examples of what happened when I disagreed with their arguments.
It’s not just me. Based on the articles I have read, their anger seems to be directed at all white women.
Whether we agree with their position or slightly disagree with caveats does not seem to matter. Their response is always the same — name-calling and anger.
My intention in writing this article is not to anger black women more than I already unintentionally have. My intention is to genuinely ask and hope for a thoughtful, detailed, well-explained answer without vitriol and name-calling, to the question — What do you want from us?
I have tried to live my life as unbiased and tolerant as possible. I believe that everyone, regardless of color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else I may have left out, has the right to live anywhere, work anywhere (based on qualifications), love anyone of their…
