Ken Burch
1 min readMar 16, 2021

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James, white people cannot be the victims of hatred. Nothing people of color could possibly do to us could be even a tenth as bad as, let alone as bad or worse than, white the white power structure continues to do to them. It still comes down to things like this: when you or I get pulled over for a trivial offense like a burned-out or busted tail light, we both know we're never going to be shot by the cop, no matter what- and if you or I had a teenage son, that teenage son would NEVER be confronted by a neighborhood watch guy simply for walking home through his own neighborhood late at night with the snack he bought at a convenience store with his own money. If you aren't personally actively racist, then just don't take it personally- it's not your place OR my place to tell people of color how they can and can't talk about us or about other white people.

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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