Orrin Konheim
1 min readJan 31, 2022

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I'm sorry you feel oppressed and it is an absolute legitimate thing to feel.

However, non-Black people are not defined solely by whether they support or oppose Black people. Many of us go about our day-to-day lives with our own problems. I'm not good at making eye contact in general, did you ever consider that?

Furthermore, racism isn't an all-or-nothing thing, a permanent characteristic, or a defining behavioral characteristic. It's something you need to be educated past. The only way you can get there is to not finger point so much and to start from a place of understanding that people think differently from yourself.

I also see it in the last post I commented on: You don't like me because I don't think Black racism is the biggest problem facing America (I would label Latin Americans crossing the border and the Native Americans as urgent needs and I don't believe intersectionality was intended for you to co-opt their problems). If someone is even considering Black Lives Matter, then they're higher than me on the scale of allyship. If you're gonna kick them to the curb and accuse them of being racist, it's not a good strategy.

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Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim

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