“I didn't exit the conversation, he did. My comment ended with my near universal experience of a truncated response from the black folks around me”
I thought very seriously about ignoring this comment. Not only is it very obviously untrue, my reply is right there, written months ago, with no response from you, so no, I didn’t exit the con…
“I didn't exit the conversation, he did. My comment ended with my near universal experience of a truncated response from the black folks around me”
I thought very seriously about ignoring this comment. Not only is it very obviously untrue, my reply is right there, written months ago, with no response from you, so no, I didn’t exit the conversation.
But also, I find it fascinating that this “near universal response” you get from black people doesn’t make you wonder if you’re the one missing something. You just keep doing the same thing with new black people and demanding different results.
You haven’t “lavished” caring attention on me. The “black community” doesn’t get together and share notes on who we have an obligation to because of some kindness to another “them.”
I’ve never dismissed what you’ve said, I’ve sympathised with the suffering you’ve described over and over again. I simply disagree with you about what word to use to describe it.
“I didn't exit the conversation, he did. My comment ended with my near universal experience of a truncated response from the black folks around me”
I thought very seriously about ignoring this comment. Not only is it very obviously untrue, my reply is right there, written months ago, with no response from you, so no, I didn’t exit the conversation.
But also, I find it fascinating that this “near universal response” you get from black people doesn’t make you wonder if you’re the one missing something. You just keep doing the same thing with new black people and demanding different results.
You haven’t “lavished” caring attention on me. The “black community” doesn’t get together and share notes on who we have an obligation to because of some kindness to another “them.”
I’ve never dismissed what you’ve said, I’ve sympathised with the suffering you’ve described over and over again. I simply disagree with you about what word to use to describe it.