Over 100 voices challenging monolithic narratives of Blackness
I disagree with a lot of my black friends. I disagree with a lot of my white friends. And that's the way it should be. The goal I hope is that we can disagree respectfully, and that we can maybe ask each other: 'why do you feel that way?' rather than saying 'you feel this way because of this'.”
This presumption rests on the unexamined premise that blacks share a common, singular mind that is at once radically unknowable to non-blacks and readily downloaded by any random individual setting up shop as a racial voice. And despite what all of our age’s many heroic narratives of individualist race-first triumph may suggest to the casual viewer, that premise is the essence of racism.”
— Adolph Reed
All lives matter. Now I know you can't say that because the meaning of those words now, in context, is freighted with a whole lot of other stuff. If you say it, it's like saying 'Blue Lives Matter'. It's taking sides. It's like being 'anti-anti-racist'. But it's just true.
The notion that race is the central thing driving these outcomes is wrong. It's just in error. People should be disabused of it.”