In the case of white America putting an end to its legacy of white supremacy, many might want to reconsider their actions. It doesn’t appear white guilt, kneeling, or removing old T.V. shows is what African Americans are asking for. The criticism by many African Americans of white Democrats kneeling in African garb should be a clear signal that white America still does not get it. African Americans do not need white people to speak for them or pander to them. There is no doubt some white Americans have stood with the fight for equality and civil rights, but when the marches are over white America often goes back to the suburbs.
On the whole, they don’t have to deal with police harassment, prejudice in hiring, lower educational opportunity, or stereotypes the way many in the African American community do. If what we are reading and hearing on the news from African Americans themselves is true, it is not about white Americans fawning over them or removing the remaining monuments to white supremacy. It seems it is more about being proactive in tearing down systemic racism. BET founder, Robert Johnson stated it clearly:
White protesters are misguided in thinking that black people support their efforts to remove statues, cancel TV shows and fire professors who say ‘all lives matter’, saying ‘frankly, black people don’t give a damn’.‘[They] have the mistaken assumption that…
