Steve QJ
2 min readAug 15, 2021

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I didn't say you were. Though yes, if you're only just paying attention to racism now, then let's just say that there's a lot you missed.

The entire reason why the crazy CRTers have managed to gain this much traction is because black people have been dealing with racism from the founding fathers to the present day and they're angry about it . And every inch of progress has been hard fought. I'm not telling anybody to "suck it up", I'm saying let's actually be in this together.

I'm saying that if more white people had stood up and said, "Hey, African Americans are Americans like us, we're not going to stand by and ignore what they're going through", all the excesses you're seeing now wouldn't exist.

It seems you don't like hearing this but it's true. And it's far from exclusively a racial issue.

If the Democrats were better at paying attention to white, working class America, president Trump wouldn't exist. If more men treated women with a basic level of respect, radical feminism wouldn't exist. Every time people ignore a problem that they think doesn't affect them, it will eventually backfire on them.

As James Baldwin put it, "if I'm hungry, you are in danger."

I've never, ever, ever said that white people are the only problem. I've said the opposite over and over again. So why you keep asking me to explain what other black people are saying when you know I disagree with them I will never understand. Well...actuallly I fear that I do understand, but I'm trying to give you more credit than that.

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Steve QJ
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