Firstly, thank you for sharing some of your experience . I think we were speaking to two different things. I was focused on not generalizing and perhaps you were looking for my stance on racism. To clarify, I'm completely against racism of any sort, and in particular I abhor anti-Black racism. I don't stand by it and when I've been given the opportunity to protect and/or support my friends of color, I have done so both from the police and ignorant individuals and/or racists. I realize that that does not make me special and that my white privilege has afforded me the opportunity to do so. With that being said, I'm not technically really "white". I might be white-passing now but I wasn't in my youth, as my ethnic features were much more pronounced. I had enough taunting and discrimination directed at me to make me fully aware that I wasn't really accepted into white society. Having white skin did not spare me the fears that I still have today, especially when suspicious people ask me where I'm from.

Of course I don't know what it's like to be visibly non-white, but I've done a fair share of going out of my way into spaces that may have not been safe for me, to educate myself. I use the tools that I have to try and make a difference, such as voting in ways that support minorities and marginalized groups and also offering free services to those who cannot afford my services.

There is absolutely a place for anger and rage in this country. I'm an immigrant myself so I don't see white history as my history and white supremacists hate my people too. I also agree that the US is made up of settler colonies but so is every country in the history of mankind. If you go all the way back to the tribes, there were power struggles there too. Do I think we need to fix this hot mess in the US? Absolutely! But the way I believe in moving forward is not through anger and hating other people. It's through education, less assumptions, listening to people you don't agree with and hearing why they believe what they do. It's choosing to go against our habit of thinking and trying something different. I love Mother Teresa's quote:

“I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.”