#inditement

Right now, I see many posts that are "shutting down" white people. By that I mean posting fake dialogues about PoC and one line is just labeled "white person" and by the end this person has been cut off from talking and told their not allowed to speak.

I understand that there are a lot of people mourning right now, who are scared right now, and who are pissed as hell right now. And I also understand that white people really are not the ones in that position. BUT, why does that mean that the conversations between races should be shut down? Personally, I really don't think they should be. There is a lot of ignorance on white people's side of things, and some other races too, maybe even black people's from some places, who knows? I think the environment people are in has a lot to do with this too. How are we going to solve ignorance if we don't all talk? If we don't all ask questions? If those who have answers don't give us the time of day to listen to and answer questions with an understanding, and those posing the question don't take in the answers they receive with an open mind? From what I can see right now, the answer is that we won't fix anything like this.

So please, I realize that right now this issue is heading in a direction that is very literally black and white, don't let it head that way. Steer it in another direction, instead make it a HUMAN issue. Because before we are a race, a gender, a religion, WHATEVER IT MAY BE, we are human.

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Among the geekier things I’ve done in my life, I once attended a convention in 1996 for fans of Godzilla movies and Japanese science fiction. While there I bumped into a guy at a dealer’s table. He was trying to think of the name of an old Japanese TV series. I told him that from what I overheard, he was talking about Space Giants. He was relieved and thanked me. We got to talking…