I'm sorry, I just can't believe that you talk like this. This style of rhetoric sets the alarm bells ringing so loudly because it's exactly the way that so many peole who talk a lot and think very little, talk.

I'm sorry, I know that sounds judgemental and I don't know you at all. I might be completely wrong. But every time I've encountered this way of speaking it's been about obfuscation.

It's like a semantic game. There's all this enthusiastic talk about revolution and "doing the work" and it just feels like the struggle itself is just a fun, feel-good pantomime to get involved in.

Tell me, these discussions, were they actual open exchanges of ides? Were both sides willing to have their assumptions and interpretatios challenged? Or were they struggle sessions where people were expected to accept the ideas that were being given to them without resistance? This is not discussion.

If you've been told not to speak for yourself then the people who have told you that aren't anti-racist. They're simply endorsing a different type of racism. Your voice isn't less valuable because you're white. In this particular case, I think your voice isn't valuable because I don't believe it's truly yours.

What is the end goal? What happens at the end of the revolution? When do you know you've succeeded? How, exactly, do your current actions get you closer to that point? If you can't answer these questions you're not achieving anything.