FB dialog: To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote: "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..." It went on for three more paragraphs like this. My reply: " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."

To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote:  "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..."  It went on for three more paragraphs like this.  My reply:  " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."