I have literally asked good friends (or were good friends) what is the appropriate response of a white person to the BLM movement and the answer was "it isn't enough to not be racist. It isn't enough to be against racism. You have to be ANTI-Racist. If you aren't ashamed of the racism of the white race, and therefore embarrased of your whiteness, you aren't anti-racists. You are turning a blind eye or forgiving and therefore perpetuating racism and that makes you a racist."
I summarised it in all seriousness as "if I am not openly and loudly expressing my embarrassment and shame at being white, I am racist?"
"yes" was the answer.
that was the end of that conversation and I have crawled back into my hole, never to set foot out into society again.
See now that's not right.
I have a very basic principal for life I wish more people would adopt.
I dont want you to be unkind or rude to me... so I wont be to you.
I dont want people telling me what I can and cant do to my body... so i wont tell you what to do with yours.
I dont want religion of any kind forced on me.... so i wont force my beliefs on you.
I don't want you to tell me who and how i can love.... so i wont do the same to you. (As long as no one is being harmed or forced. That's a whole different bag of fish)
I dont want you to tell me how i must live... so i wont do the same to you.
I dont want racist behaviour directed at me... so i wont direct that towards you.
That whole do unto others as you wish would be done unto you saying.
Life is too short to spend your time worrying about how others are living their lives. Rather spend that time living your life and making memories.