Gen X says: Seek Allies, Question the Messaging.

 As a middle child, a Libra, a GenXer, first-generation BornInTheUSA ethnic with roots effectively severed to any Old Country holdings, I understand assimilation, imitation, hard work and hustle. And the real need to be inclusive if you want to move around in life and grow.

Diversity sure is divisive these days, isn't it? 

Meant to be inclusive, to bridge society's divides and inequities, instead today too many Americans are content to gape, and whine and moan, at the racial and economic chasms allegedly growing between us, as more and more, diverse Americans come together geographically and biologically too, in mixed communities and relationships --  kin and family, pairings and partnerships...

Fed a false narrative though, as New Media professionally coordinates their woke talking points, instead of inclusively growing a movement -- against poor educational outcomes; police brutality; environmental injustice in poorer neighborhoods; infrastructure planning that upends daily life in a shared ecosystem -- artificially planned diversity actually divides us.*

How many potential allies are lost to the causes above because too often movement leaders are willing to declare checkbook victory and continue waging the war for personal wealth, battle by battle, without a united effort to create real change by addressing holistic causes, not simply symptoms?

John McWhorter:  Black people are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by cops, and exactly 2.5 times more likely to be poor, and data shows that poverty makes you more likely to encounter the cops, as even intuition confirms. This is why somewhat more black people are killed by cops than what our proportion in the population would predict.

Accounts of this issue that pretend people like me have not presented figures like this – i.e. most mainstream media discussions -- are out of court, even if their authors feel it’s their duty to pull people’s eyes away from “irreligious” ideas. Ignore the numbers and, even if you are writing about descendants of African slaves, you are simply plain wrong.

Reflect also: most people who take to the streets about cases like Daunte Wright are not thinking about the fact that black people are killed by cops 2.5 times more than their representation in the population would predict. They are protesting because all they see in the news is the black people killed, and have no way of imagining that whites are regularly killed in the same way and in much greater numbers.

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Once more. Every time the media broadcasts the murder by cop of a black person, ask yourself if it’s really true that a cop wouldn’t have done it to a white person – and then go to, for example, the Washington Post database and see cops doing just that.

And upon that, we will settle upon an honest national conversation about the cops as murdering people in race-neutral fashion. Or at least we should.

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I understand assimilation, imitation, hard work and hustle. Today too many Americans are content to gape, and whine and moan, at the racial and economic chasms allegedly growing between us.  Fed a false narrative though, instead of inclusively growing a movement, artificial diversity actually divides us. How many potential allies are lost without a united effort to create real change by addressing holistic causes, not simply symptoms?