I honestly don't know how to engage with a comment like this. Or rather a sentence like this. The critique of the article I'm fine with, I'll get to that. But seriously, is this really how you see the world? I mean, I know this is hyperbole (or at least I hope so), but what are you hoping to achieve here?

Whether or not you believe that black people are capable of racism (I'm guessing not) you sound exactly like the worst of the worst racists throughout history. Ironically, if you were white and said something like this about black people I'd simply have blocked you instead of replying. But let's give this a try.

First off, yes, Mamie Till wasn't attemtping to be magnanimous. I didn't suggest that she was. She wanted to force white America to come face to face with the ugliness of racism. Not to stay nestled in their bubbles of ignorance (a bubble that even she recognised that she'd been living in to a lesser degree). What she did was incredibly brave and selfless. It changed America. I'm not sure what the distinction you're trying to make is.

And yes, as I said, the proportion of white people experiencing racism pales in comparison to the number of black people experiencing racism today. Never mind the generations of racism that black people have already experienced. I state that explicitly in the article.

But given that I don't view white people as "acolytes of the Devil", I've noticed that something is shifting right now. Go back ten years and I wouldn't even have been able to find the examples of anti-white racism that I point to here. I see white people outraged at the treatment they're receiving in the public arena. I see them complaining about how unjust it is to be called racists or "fragile" simply because of the colour of their skin.

And they're right to feel that way. Racism, as I'm sure we'd agree, is wrong.

But the silver lining of this moment, if we stop leaning into racist rhetoric like yours, is that we can point to how this is a tiny taste of what black people have been experiencing for years. We can take this problem, that until now the overwhelming majority of white people have had no experience of, and therefore less empathy for, and say "Look, this is what it's like. This is what we’ve been talking about. Let's fix this for everybody."

I'm not naive enough to imagine that we'll get through to everybody with this approach. But the people we can get through to, people who do care, like those I’ve already had conversations with here and elsewhere, let's keep getting through to them. Let's humanise each other instead of demonising and attacking each other. Let's live up to the ideals we demand of others and refuse to judge people by the colour of their skin.

And for people like you, people who so casually call an entire group of people devils simply because their skin is a different colour to yours. Ask yourself if you'd really have been any different to those white racists who denigrated black people for so long. Ask yourself if you are any different. Ask yourself if comments like these don't signify an irrational hatred based on racial characteristics.

We're getting a really good look at each other at the moment. We're getting the tiniest glimpse of how the world looks from "the other side". I suggest that we also take a good look at ourselves.