It's also important for those who promote those issues within the white community - the somewhat privileged community - to talk about issues affecting people of color.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.
If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.
That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.