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I find nothing wrong with this article or its message.

Seems what he's saying is black people don't need white people to send cheap sympathy or pity as a way to assuage their own guilt.

You know how you all complain about "thoughts and prayers"? This is literally what the author is trying to say.

He's also saying you might actually have to do difficult things in order to enact meaningful change. You might have to make a sacrifice and that might be a relationship you thought was rock solid until you saw them posting pro-police graphics on their Facebook.

I'm dealing with two such people right now. One is an infrequently seen family member I can push to the back of my head, but another I deal with on a fairly frequent basis. I'm trying very hard to find ways I can get across what I want, maybe reach out to them, and still maintain the friendship. And we're part of a group too, a group that this person is largely at the center of. Were I to speak up, would I be jeopardizing not only that friendship, but also the friendship of everyone connected?

That's what this article is talking about, from my point of view.

Quite frankly I think I'm one of the lucky ones if it's only two people.

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CyricZ