jsecure
1 min readSep 2, 2021

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This silly response is everything that is wrong with you. You talk about how ‘white people’ liked or disliked Martin Luther King. That’s exactly my point. You can’t judge a whole group of people purely on the colour of their skin. I’m sure there were people with white skin who hated Martin Luther King. I’m sure there were people with white skin who loved him. As for me? I’m not ‘a white person’. I’m John. I have my own thoughts, my own positions on things and I cannot be judged as a group based on my skin colour. And for the record, I am mixed race so I neither identify as black or white.

You say you want to be an outsider to white people — in that one sentence you are firstly grouping all people who have white skin and making them a group — despite them having vastly different thoughts, viewpoints, political standpoints, religions, tolerances — making a grouping of people whose skin colour is white is just meaningless. You are firstly making this meaningless group, and then secondly deciding you want to ‘be an outsider’ to them. That means you have decided to treat them with hostility. To decide your views don’t align with them; you’re not one of them — based entirely on the colour of their skin?

Honestly, I feel sorry for you.

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jsecure
jsecure

Written by jsecure

I live in London and have worked as a software developer for the last 20 years.

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