&gt; Here we go with the white man trying to lecture a Black woman on how racism works. Maybe you should go tell white people that Black people have plenty in common with them. They are the ones who set up the system in the first place.


There's not a white man alive who set up the system as you're suggesting. The vast majority of us are victims of it, not the creators, and not even the enforcers or the beneficiaries. You're saying I'm just as bad as people who lived centuries ago because I have a similar skin color, and somehow *I'm* the racist blinded by his racism?  MLK sure as hell didn't preach "class not race".

Yes, [he did](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign). I'm not surprised you're not familiar with the Poor People's Campaign, though.  Black Lives Matter was a threat to the status quo, genius. You act like people weren't getting lynched, their houses blown up, and suffering kinds of other atrocities because they dared get out of place in regards to race. The majority of white people during MLK's time did not like him. It had everything to do with him speaking against white supremacy.

Really? It was? Then tell me, what concessions did it get? Or do you think BLM is just an extension of the organizations that were active in the 60's, and not its own movement that came together under its own circumstances. Like, you do realize a mentally ill man was just murdered the other day by a cop using the same knee on neck chokehold that killed George Floyd, right? And the victim was a light skinned Latino, not even black.

&gt;And the fact you even dare mention Obama in the same sentence as Trump or McConnell shows your ignorance and racism. I don't know what goes on in your head, but I can't afford to be blind and say there is no difference between Pelosi and the likes of Trump.

Really? Because to me it shows that I'm judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. I'm not saying there's no difference whatsover. I'm saying that on the big stuff, they're more similar than they are different.  But you know who you have common cause with? Trump and all his fellow conservative ilk.

 I still think we have a common cause, but you're too blinded by your hate to see it. Same as the skinhead jackasses we were talking about in the first place. Your anger is valid, but it's misdirected -- has *been* misdirected by people you trusted, but didn't have your best interests at heart. People who would rather have people like you and me at each others' throats than banding together to make all of our lives better.

&gt;As if I needed your permission to fight for Black people and other marginalized groups. And my expectations for Biden are well managed.

 If you know you have to manage your expectations for him, that tells me that deep down you know I'm right.