I agree with you.

I also agree with IndigoOcean about most of her post, for example, we must demilitarize the police immediately. That's part of returning to a constitutional republic and not the crony-capitalist fake democracy currently in place. (I just hope this isn't a pretext to bringing in international - maybe UN - troops to keep the peace.)

We also need to spread awareness of what racism actually is. It can exist from and to any ethnicity of people, for example. The lie that only "white people" can be racist is ITSELF a racist idea. Another aspect many people don't understand is that talking about race isn't necessarily racist. Some people think that just saying "black" is racist, for crying out loud. Or that bringing up race, in the context of discussion (like here), is itself racist. That's so misguided. Calling racism on everything means we can't have a discussion.

It was so much simpler as a kid, for me. I used to watch Sesame Street as a toddler, and Gordon was a regular then. A middle-aged black man with a shiny bald head. One day, my parents introduced me to a friend of a friend I'd never met before. They said "what do you notice about this man?"

I said "hmmmm, he looks like Gordon??"

They laughed and said "oh, you mean because he has black skin?"

I looked at his skin, and sure enough, it was black. But I had barely noticed that until they mentioned it. "No, because he's bald!"

Long story short, the adults assumed I was born to notice skin colour above all else, but I surprised them.

I think I want most of the things BLM says they want. It's just that I don't want to get there through more racism. Maybe it's a bit like how I want most of the things modern feminists want, I just don't want to get there through more sexism.

And yeah, I have a penis and fair skin, so people will judge my opinion based on that more than anything else, but I've given this a lot of thought and research. I don't think I've reached my conclusions for selfish reasons, but hey, I'm always open to discuss it :)