Totally feeling the same way. I am also a “black leftist” and on a rally two years ago (against the present government of my country), I got talking to a few white “socialists” who told me almost verbatim what you were told. There was an addendum “Racism will never be eradicated, so you’ll have to accept it”. I…

EXACTLY. We don’t need allies. We just need white people (are at least white liberals) to admit white privilege is a thing, and to work towards are equality without expecting a cookie for it.

I want so much to reply to this, but I just don’t know how.

I appreciate your open mind. If you could let your brethren know that the term “white guilt” is a tool, wielded mainly by the right wing, to inflame (and sometimes subdue) white people. White guilt doesn’t help anyone. But wide-scale enlightenment of white people to the full, accurate history of America...

That’s all fine advice, but has nothing to do with structural inequalities that have been built over centuries and are being built higher today. Recognizing that it is much harder for a black family to acquire wealth is not the same thing as teaching all children the magic of compound interest.

I get accused a lot of being a victim of white guilt by other white people, and it could not be further from the truth...I didn’t create the system. Acknowledging that I benefit from it disproportionately doesn’t come from a place of personal guilt at all.

Some of them do want the status quo to change, but the change includes a complete erasure of everyone who isn’t like them. You can have dark skin, of course, as long as you buy into hippie/hipster culture and pretend that you are exactly like them. That counts as “woke”.

It makes them feel uncomfortable because it forces them to acknowledge that, for all their so-called liberalism, they still have a tremendous amount of white privilege. And they desperately want to think that they are above the fray, and they certainly aren’t racist, and they donate to causes for people of color, so…

The Daily News reports that Ms. Thompson is “in denial” about her husband. “She keeps asking for him,” according to a police source.

I don’t understand white America’s relationship with the phrase “white guilt.”It’s like some of them are staunchly against the premise (i.e. Proud Boys) while others soak in it. I wish people would stop batting that term around because NO ONE wants white guilt to be a thing. I want knowledgeable, fact based white…

As a lefty the amount of ignorance about this subject than my fellow leftists have is baffling.

“We aren’t in the same situation as working class whites, and we have never been.”

All politics are identity politics and it’s ridiculous when they pretend that theirs are somehow special. Then again, that’s white privilege for you.

Yeah - in no time we will have some people up in here bitching about “identity politics.” For anyone non-white, non-straight, non-cis, or non-man, that’s just “politics.”

I’ll preface this by stating that I am a black leftist.

And that’s what Bernie and his minions still don’t understand.

First, I want to say.. Sis, I’m so sorry that happened to you...These are numerous fucked up encounters and I’m glad at least one person albeit a white woman took you seriously and helped you.