Orrin Konheim
2 min readFeb 9, 2021

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I'm trying to grasp what you're saying, but on first glance it sounds like you're emphatically stating that you believe your own identity as a black person is superior to a white person's. White power is seen as a bad thing becasue it's very exclusionary and black people don't have the demographic or political clout in this country to be effectively exclusionary but the thought of "my race is entitled to this, your racial identity isn't" is still clear in your writing which I would call hippocritical.

I understand that celebrating whiteness is pointless, but you're almost preaching an outright disdain for white people and a blanket categorization that they've all oppressed you when many of them (like my Iranian grandparents) or Eastern Europeans who were victims of either the Soviet Union (highest suicide rate in the world) or ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Additionally, some African countries such as Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe have much better socio-economic conditions than Ghana, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, etc.

I'm not preaching the "Good African" doctrine, but that this type of wokeness is just a celebration of oversimplification. It's much easier to view the world as us vs them.

Besides, what you argue is on a macroscopic scale, not a microscopic scale. Not every single black person in this country is in a lower socio-economic advantage than a white

There have been civil wars, large scale wars, poorly handled pandemics, actual terrorist attacks, Holocausts, ethnic cleansings in the last century of this planet. And child slavery in southeast asia. Slavery was an egregrious sin but for you to loosely throw around the world genocide for the period of time between 1950 and 2021 is a pretty big exxageration and insensitivity. That statement does not deny redlining or civil rights facades.

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Orrin Konheim
Orrin Konheim

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