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TuesdayJun16,2020at12:01AM

Don, I have read your columns and enjoyed your contributions ever since Comic News was in print. But, wow: todays Forgive the rookies column was such a shocking example of white cluelessness that it took my breath away.

You missed the boat so widely that I urge you to apologize before you become a viral hashtag. Please, at least run this by more Black leaders and friends.

I know you didnt intend this, but please understand that your column is a telling example of blindness and privilege. Do you see how you are speaking for blacks, telling them from your place of safety and privilege how they should respond?

Your point about rookie cops was a valid one. But then you took it too far: You actually advised George Floyds family to forgive and you quoted Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., appropriating him, assuming you knew that he would agree with you! Please do not tell anyone who has been disenfranchised or abused how or when to forgive.

What whites need to be doing right now is listening: shutting up, stepping away from the podium, and listening.

Black voices matter. Black feelings matter.

Heather Henderson, Eugene

Excerpt from:
A telling example of blindness and privilege - Opinion - The Register-Guard

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