“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”
Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
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Riddle from the Middle 
An excellent and hopefully useful analogy!
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I thought it was a really good example to clarify things.
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Laura, I am going to add this to my reading list. We can read all we want about racism, but have a conversation about it is another matter.
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Oh good, I hope you like it! I learned a lot.
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Spot on Laura. I never understood this argument anyway that white lives matter as well.
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It’s extraordinarily perplexing to me because well, yes, they *do* matter and always have. BLM doesn’t mean white people don’t suffer or struggle or that their lives don’t matter, it means we need to talk about the ways Black lives really are. But the argument is circular so I don’t find myself successful when talking with someone about it.
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Yes, one either “gets” the argument or not. They will not accept any argument! The fact is that everyone’s life matters!
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