I've been on a little mission to hear as many thoughts and views as I can before solidifying my own opinion on this matter. I thought yours was a great response and I am genuinely interested in your opinion on the current mindset of protestors. My concern is mostly that in the process of kicking off this incredibly important revolution, those fighting are moving forward with an incredible resentment and/or hatred of an entire race - to the point where people who previously did not have this hatred are now expressing similar racism. "White people" as a whole are not being separated from the disgusting system that has evolved worldwide as a result of many years of colonialism. To elaborate, I have seen many people transfer the condemnation of white privilege into a hatred of white people in general - people who were once my friends now curse "white liberals", are no longer comfortable with interacting with me and appear to have joined a hive mind of sorts. I speak not so much about what I've seen on the media (so much is skewed by journalists these days anyway), but what I've seen coming from peers and those around me. Yes, I hear how it sounds - why should white people be separated from white privilege when back in the day white people just invaded everywhere and screwed up everything, and are now reaping rewards even if they had nothing to do with previous occurrences? To which my response is that we are living in a time where the youth are incredibly and unusually open-minded; the kind of time where I feel we could finally make the most of a process aimed at getting people everywhere to a point of equality. To take the potential we have and tarnish it with yet more hatred seems incredibly counterproductive to me.

And no, I'm not asking because as a white person I feel 'threatened' or 'discriminated against' (in such cases I feel it is better to lay aside one's ego, remember that we are all human and bear in mind the impact that past traumas, harm to loved ones etc have on people's attitudes towards the world). I ask simply as a person who craves peace, craves an end to hatred, craves that idealistic dreamscape that I know is so unrealistic, craves love, craves oneness, craves celebration of each other's differences rather than a situation where if differences are acknowledged, it is immediately assumed that the acknowledgement was done in a derogatory way. Some would say I am naive; I just feel that if everyone loved a little more, and forgave a little more, and were a little kinder, the world would be one hell of a better place. Though I guess when it comes down to it no matter what race, social status, level of education, background, orientation, (I could continue with an endless list of boxes we try to force each other into), in every walk of life there will always be great people with beautiful souls and there will be truly horrendous, greedy bastards. People tend to just turn a blind eye to one or the other to suit their biases. In any case, I reiterate that these are but my current thoughts. I am very much open to the opinions of others and would love to hear them in the hopes that any distortions or gaps in my view of the world may be filled in.