Man I had to learn this the hard way. Got into a 'discussion' about white privilege and there is NOTHING you can say to get them to understand. And I'm not talking about personal anecdotes, I'm talking hard science. Studies by Harvard, MIT, from law schools, stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nothing. Everything thing is just "well my grandfather worked hard and he made it. I got a traffic ticket last week. I work. Where's my white privilege?" shyt has nothing to do with black people or any macro understanding of economic or political or cultural structures of this country. Just me me me.
There is a particular lack of empathy that you find with this kind of person. They are absolutely unable to see through the eyes of another human being and they don't even attempt to listen to another point of view. I heard the term 'mansplaining' when I was messing YouTube earlier and that sure as shyt can be applied to race as well. Apparently living life as a black person, working in black communities, and studying black history and economics in college means I am somehow less qualified to know or talk about black people than some white guy who has never touched a book written by a black person or been to a black neighborhood but knows three black people(it's always three) who always agree with him. And that piece RIGHT THERE is what gets me. This notion that as a black person you are unqualified to speak on your black experience. Don't worry. Some racist white dude will take care of that for you.
But back to this a$$hole that's trying to act like he was a civil rights leader in disguise with the posting of the anti-violence protests like he'd ever give a shyt. Are we gonna give him the Coli wolf treatment or what?