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In reply to the discussion: After 10 years, I've never seen DU as crazy as it is right now. [View all]Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)I lived and worked in the Oakland and Richmond area of CA for nearly 20 years, and I'm used to hearing and participating in these conversations on whiteness in activist spaces with Black activists. It's a real critique, but evidently not one that many DUers are used to hearing. If you aren't familiar with the use of terms like white supremacy to describe white power structures outside of the ultra-right white activist/racist structure, I guess it could be confusing.
I hope you will listen to Marissa's interview, if you haven't, and have been reading interpretations of it here by others. I know you are an it-getter on other social justice topics, so hopefully you will stay open to conversations on this. I think Black Lives Matter is going to remain a topic of discussion in this election, and honestly, politicians aside, the way that DU has discussed this has not been cool, as you noted.